emancipator

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He may be known as the Great Emancipator, but Abraham Lincoln was a committed partisan who knew how to organize supporters and undermine opponents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Lincoln biographer Harold Holzer, who won the 2015 Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize, wrote to Salon that modern readers should hesitate before judging the Great Emancipator too harshly.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2023

Joining a flotilla of competing boats near Point Roberts, the Emancipator initiated a set and then began pulling in its seines.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2023

Many consider it the best likeness of the Great Emancipator ever made in marble.

From Washington Post • May 29, 2022

When we got it out, it was a plaster bust of The Great Emancipator, President Abraham Lincoln, finished like bronze.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck