Also gotta love the fact Wooter ignores the only reason Dems had more slave owners is because the party had been around longer . And the Republicans had little in way of a unified set of beliefs
Oh and Lincoln may have freed the slaves but he was also a racist
Oh and Lincoln may have freed the slaves but he was also a racist
Quote:More problematic were Lincoln’s views on race. He held opinions not very different from those of the majority of his racist countrymen. Even if slavery was wrong, “there is a physical difference between the white and black races that will for ever forbid the two races from living together on terms of social and political equality.” His solution was a form of ethnic cleansing: shipping blacks off to Liberia, or Haiti, or Central America — anywhere as long as it wasn’t the United States.
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