laklak wrote:Lincoln was racist as all fuck.
So freeing slaves was a policy motivated by racism? Doesn't parse.
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laklak wrote:Lincoln was racist as all fuck.
Scot Dutchy wrote:Lincoln did not care. He just wanted to destroy the south.
laklak wrote:Lincoln was racist as all fuck.
Seabass wrote: Lincoln spent his entire political career opposing slavery.
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
Seabass wrote:Sure, I know the letter. I'm just sayin', the notion that Lincoln didn't care about, or wasn't opposed to slavery is wrong. And I wouldn't have used "destroy" where he did. "Subdue", "defeat", "bring to heel" work, but maybe I'm just being pedantic...
Scot Dutchy wrote:The freed slaves were caught by their old owners in the share cropping schemes where they even ended up worse than they were as slaves.
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