"Do you have evidence that Lincoln (or his wife while they were married) ever owned slaves?"
GEEZ LOUISE!!!! Are you blind or merely illiterate? I never said Lincoln or Mary Todd ever owned slaves.
I said Mary Todd's FATHER owned slaves!
Let's grant that, then.
What relevance does that have?
Most of Lincoln's wealth didn't come by way of dowry but rather from his very lucrative law practice, particularly from railroad clients.
But perhaps you are trying to get at Lincoln's views on the subject: that he wasn't so enlightened or that he was a hypcrite. I don't see the hypocrisy, as I said, though I think it might be better directed at men like Jefferson who railed against slavery while keeping slaves himself. But as for Lincoln, his views certainly evolved. Convinced from an early age that chattel slavery was wrong, he took until the final eyars of his life to begin approaching a point where he started considering blacks as something like real equals. You can find all kinds of apparent racist comments from Lincoln in the 1850's. Frederick Douglas, however, noted the enormous growth in Lincoln's views on race by the time of his Second Inaugural.