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Due Date: January 17, 2025
Due Date: January 17, 2025
Summative Assessment: 20 Points
Summative Assessment: 20 Points
Prompt
Prompt
Read and analyze the assigned sources. Then, in a RAFT that synthesizes at least three of the sources for support, take a position that defends, challenges, or qualifies the claim that Abraham Lincoln should be known to future generations as the Great Emancipator.
Background
Background
Most children know the Abraham Lincoln story: “Honest Abe” who lived in a log cabin and learned to write on the back of a shovel because his family was too poor to have paper; the hardworking rail-splitter who embodied the American Dream by becoming a self-taught lawyer, successful politician, and president; the Great Emancipator who freed the slaves; the leader who led the Union to victory in the Civil War; and finally, the great martyr for liberty, assassinated on April 14, 1865. While Lincoln’s place among the greatest of American heroes is surely secure, we might ask how much of this narrative is true to life and how much is mythic.
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