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Rating: 5/10 (30 November 2015)

In the movie Lincoln (2012) I believe it did not accurately portray the steps that led up to freeing the slaves. The movie provided great evidence from Lincoln's stands that he took with his Emancipation Proclamation, but words on paper itself did not solely free the slaves. The African Americans had to take action also...for example Frederick Douglass started an anti-slavery newspaper, called The North Star. Douglass made people aware of slavery, he did everything in his power to try and end slavery. Other African Americans saw the Civil War as a potential war for abolition way before Lincoln did. The slaves escaped and went into the military. Lincoln did certainly help with the process of freeing the slaves, but he went off of the ideas of other African American abolitionists. The movie should of showed views from both points...Lincoln's and African American's instead of only showing Lincoln's stands that were taken, because with out the initiative of the slaves/African Ameicans themselves they may not have been freed at that time.