Pffffft!!
Lincoln was an unabashed racist, and thought blacks were incapable of self-governance.
He freed the slaves! Fought an unpopular war! Invited the first black man to the white house - Fredrick Douglas (excluding those who build it). He was a big reason for the 13th and 14h amendment, not to mention the Civil Rights Act of 1868!
Yea he was a HUGE asshole to African Americans!
He didn't free the slaves cause he loved them so much, he did it because he was a free-soiler (a racist ideology that advocated removing all blacks, free or slave, outside the United States), and he only wrote the Emancipation Proclomation to further his cause for war.
And your right, the war was unpopular, because he micromanaged the killing of southern civilians. He even signed an order making every woman in New Orleans a prostitute so the invading northern armies could legally rape them.
The war was about States Rights and Economics, not slavery.
BTW, the 14th ammendment was passed after he had died, over the Veto of his successer... Johnson. I actually blame Northern policy for the institutionalization of segregation in the south, which had originated in the Northern States.
I highly recoment Thomas DiLorenzo's "The Real Lincoln" and "Lincoln Unmasked". Great informative books.
Do you have a link for the highlighted claim?