[Para-Ord.45]

AS a young lawyer,age 28, he represented a slave owner. His personal feelings should have trumped the all mighty dollar ?

He married Mary Todd, who came from one of Kentucky’s most prominent slave-holding families. His personal feelings should have repulsed him from Todd?

He endorsed Zachary Taylor, a slave owner, in his successful 1848 bid for the Presidency.

Peoria, Illinois, 1854 he stated he would send all blacks back to Liberia.

August 21, 1858,Lincoln and Douglas debates he stated,

“I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.”

Lincoln was in favor of repatriation,either in Liberia or somewhere in the Caribbean . He was a fundamental believer in racial separation addressing the Colonization Society many times and studied at the feet of Henry Clay.

[donmeaker]

Lincoln was in favor of repatriation,either in Liberia or somewhere in the Caribbean He was for voluntary repatriation. After conversations with Fredrick Douglass, Lincoln came to understand that many did not want to go to Africa. The 13th 14th and 15th amendments were to free the slaves, and give them equal rights in the US, not to provide racial distinctions or to transport people unwilling. That seems to me to be a good indicator of how his views changed over time.