And yet Lincoln wasn’t as racist as anyone from the south.
And yet Lincoln wasn’t as racist as anyone from the south.
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Uh, you may want to do a little research on the above statement. Lincoln actively considered “recolonization” plans for slaves DURING the Civil War. His plan for freed slaves was to ship them to Liberia or to buy a Caribbean island and colonize it. As a state legislator, he supported the Illinois law which forbade ALL blacks from entering Illinois. He married into a slave owning family. He made multiple speeches where he stated that blacks were inferior to whites, etc. I’m not sure you can be much more “racist” than that. I’m not suggesting Southerners were better on this issue. Obviously, slavery was horrible. But most people in the North, especially New Englanders looked at blacks as completely subhuman and refused contact with them. Northern politicians constantly berated their Southern counterparts by noting their closeness to blacks.