He refused to own slaves. He considered it evil.
He was right.
If I suddenly found myself in antebellum America, I would be working for the Underground Railroad. Most of us would.
"Written history is always subject to a kind of cultural amnesia. Some of it is deliberately forgotten and some of it is inadvertently lost"Exactly.
Slavery is one of the most hideous evils ever to afflict mankind. Its evil exists in the world today! It must be abolished.
Lincoln was one of the greatest presidents America ever produced. The Gettysburg Address is a sacred document.
Nothing is more dangerous than self-deception--denial.