Let's discuss it then.
Blacks in South Africa under Apartheid were not slaves. They could not be sold down the river never to see their families again. Their children belonged to them, not to some 'master.' They could work for wages wherever they could be hired. They were free to move about the country or even to leave the country if they chose. They could own property and that property was respected. They were allowed to learn to read and write.
Mandela v Lincoln? Wrong analogy.
Apartheid treated blacks in South Africa very similar to how blacks in the most of the Southern US were treated for 100 years after the Civil War. They were not allowed to participate in the political process. They were denied equal rights in a number of spheres such as housing, employment and educational opportunities. They were denied equal protection under the law. But they were not chattel slaves.
Mandela v M.L. King? I can see their struggles as similar but what Mandela fought against was nothing like the institution of slavery that Lincoln opposed and apparently you would have supported.
I do not think you have any idea what I support.
Apartheid was not similar to southern slavery. Persons of African heritage, or those deemed ‘colored’ had representation and a system of laws. Different laws applied to different people based on their legal status.
In the racist republic there was no system of legal rape, legal private torture, and legal kidnapping by private parties as was the case in the US antebellum slave states.
A genealogist tracked the children of a famous Zulu woman. One of her descendants was Pieter Botha, leader of the oxcart wing of the Nationalist (Afrikaner) Party. That meant legally he, (and probably many others) were legally colored, making the racist republic illegitimate by even its own laws. After that, the Nationalist Party decided to pack it in, and hold the elections that installed Mandela. Mandela did not bring democracy to SA, that was the old racist republic and its horribly compromised leadership. Mandela avoided, for the time being, the blood bath that could have been the outcome of a different path during democracy.
Mandela should properly not be compared to President Lincoln, but rather to Presidents Andrew Johnson and Grant, to implemented the mercy on the insurrection that Mandela implemented on the leaders and foot soldiers of the insurrection.
I don’t think myself so good a man as to have that much mercy in me.