[jeffersondem]

“His writing inspired British socialists, but he wasn’t any great friend of democracy or racial equality.”

Racial equality? Is that now the standard for judging people who lived in the 1800s?

Just for the tally book, what was Lincoln’s position on fair housing laws?

[BroJoeK]

x: "His writing inspired British socialists, but he wasn’t any great friend of democracy or racial equality."

jeffersondem: "Racial equality?
Is that now the standard for judging people who lived in the 1800s?
Just for the tally book, what was Lincoln’s position on fair housing laws?"

"Tally book"? Who uses that term?

Just for your, er.. "tally book", in the 1800s "racial equality" would have referred to such matters as abolition, citizenship and voting rights, not "fair housing".
And, yes, Lincoln was good with those.