[4CJ]

If Lincoln wasn't the driving force behind the E.P. and eventually the 13th Amendment...then who was?

Lincoln can take credit for the EP, but it's like claiming a John F'n Kerry won the Vietnam War. The EP was not a measure designed to free slaves out of compassion. It was intended to cause massive slave revolts whereupon the slaves murdered their masters. As a reward, Liincoln intended on repatriating any and all blacks out of the country.

Lincoln's 13th Amendment guaranteed slavery forever.

[Non-Sequitur]

It was intended to cause massive slave revolts whereupon the slaves murdered their masters.

Nonsense.