Political necessity is not the same thing as hypocrisy. The only reason the emancipation did not free slaves in the border states was because the Union could not risk their secession. Winning the war was, quite rightly, the highest priority at the time.
Holding that against Lincoln is about as stupid as holding against Churchill England's wartime alliance with the Soviet Union.
I don’t hold it against Lincoln. I am merely speaking to how my Southern relatives talked about it even when I was a little girl...more that 100 years after the end of the war. Personally, I am a great admirer of Lincoln. I think he was one of the greatest presidents of all time and saved the union...I include George Washington, John Adams and Ronald Reagan in this group.
There was a small amount of residual slavery in some mostly North Eastern states also at the time of the Civil War or as my aunties called it “The War of Northern Aggression”. I never heard the term civil war until I went to school in the North after one of our many moves.
In fact, I am sick of these revisionist historians who seek to destroy our American heroes. It’s sick.