So you feel this @Dr. ed, whoever that is, is cute.
Ok, but apart from that little muse did you happen to notice the OP suggestion that Lincoln's being a friend and a savior to enslaved blacks is a myth?
Let's think about that. If freeing slaves from legal slavery and enabling their citizenship was not being a friend and savior to enslaved blacks then what, pray tell, would have been?
Would the truer and actual act of friendship and saving been to issue each enslaved black a pint of hooch?*
Being a friend and savior to enslaved blacks involved giving them something of actual value, as their true friend Lincoln did -- having to prevail over his own latent racism to do so, and at considerable risk after all. Lincoln was killed for acting on emancipation, and there's no myth in that whatsoever.
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* that's about what was attempted with native Americans, that and a big shiny peace medal with an image of the great white chief on it. If you don't get it, being a friend to enslaved blacks actually involved giving something of actual value to them, as true friend Lincoln did, actually prevailing over his own latent racism to do so, and at some risk besides. He literally was killed for the move, no myth in it whatsoever.