Lincoln freed the slaves

Rating: 7/10 (30 November 2015)

The movie Lincoln accurately represents the history of the end of slavery. One example of this is in the movie, Lincoln and his followers tried getting as many votes as they could in order to pass the 13th amendment. Opposing viewpoints could say that the slaves freed themselves because they gave Lincoln no other options than to free them. But other historians think otherwise, Barry Bradford says "in general terms, that Lincoln is quite accurate". One reason that is accurate is because the director researched the steps in history Lincoln used to free the slaves in order to make the movie just the same as history. This movie shows that Abe Lincoln himself passed the 13th amendment and freed the slaves.