[jeffersondem]

“Socialist policies like utilizing slave labor?”

I knew the topic of Lincoln using slave labor to help build the US Capitol would come up sooner or later but I didn’t realize you would be the one to bring it up.

Before you ask, yes, I denounce Lincoln’s use of slave labor in the strongest possible terms.

[DoodleDawg]

I knew the topic of Lincoln using slave labor to help build the US Capitol would come up sooner or later but I didn’t realize you would be the one to bring it up.

Did Lincoln use slave labor for that? Source?

Before you ask, yes, I denounce Lincoln’s use of slave labor in the strongest possible terms.

But not the use of slave labor by men like Jefferson Davis, Robert Lee, Thomas Jackson, et.al.?

[BroJoeK]

jeffersondem: "I knew the topic of Lincoln using slave labor to help build the US Capitol would come up "

Presumably jeffersondem here refers to work being performed when Lincoln took office in March 1861.
But the important fact is that in April 1862 Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act.