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==Critiques==
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Lincoln's proclamation has been called "one of the most radical emancipations in the history of the modern world."<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Hahn |first=Steven |date=2011-01-13 |title=Discovering Equality |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/81377/lincoln-slavery-fiery-trial-review |magazine=The New Republic |issn=0028-6583}}</ref> Nonetheless, as over the years American society continued to be deeply unfair towards black people, cynicism towards Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation increased. One attack was [[Lerone Bennett, Jr.|Lerone Bennett's]] ''[[Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream]]'' (2000), which claimed that Lincoln was a white supremacist who issued the Emancipation Proclamation in lieu of the real racial reforms for which radical abolitionists pushed. To this, one scholarly review states that "Few Civil War scholars take Bennett and [[Thomas DiLorenzo|DiLorenzo]] seriously, pointing to their narrow political agenda and faulty research."<ref>{{cite journal |url= https://muse.jhu.edu/article/315139 |last=Dirck |first=Brian |title=''Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery'', and ''Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War'', and ''Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment'' (review) |journal=Civil War History |date=September 2009 |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages= 382–385|doi=10.1353/cwh.0.0090 |s2cid=143986160 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> In his ''Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation'', [[Allen C. Guelzo]] noted professional historians' lack of substantial respect for the document, since it has been the subject of few major scholarly studies. He argued that Lincoln was the U.S.'s "last [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] politician"<ref>{{harvnb|Guelzo|2006|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=MOFHPTQYqzgC&pg=PA3 3]}}</ref> and as such had "allegiance to 'reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason'.... But the most important among the Enlightenment's political virtues for Lincoln, and for his Proclamation, was prudence".<ref>{{harvnb|Guelzo|2006|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=MOFHPTQYqzgC&pg=PA3 3]}}</ref>
Other historians have given more credit to Lincoln for what he accomplished toward ending slavery and for his own growth in political and moral stature.<ref>Doris Kearns Goodwin, ''Team of Rivals'', New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005</ref> More might have been accomplished if he had not been assassinated. As [[Eric Foner]] wrote:
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