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In some passages it seems that Lincoln is somewhat a white supremacist but he is greatly against slavery at all times. This is what confuses many, how could such a great and powerful man be a white supremacist? Well Abe once invited some of the most

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Whether this feeling accords with justice and sound judgment, is not the sole question, if indeed, it is any part of it. He thought that the white race was far more superior to any group of slaves. ” Tell me what you would think of that if it was said to you about your race, or how about this; Lincoln tried for years to exclude slavery from his was aims, and actually reimposed slavery after two of his generals manumitted slaves in southern areas they held. Anyone could tell that the only reason that he freed the slaves was do to political pressure; he simply wanted to keep his job.

In short, Lincoln may not have been everything his admirers over the years have credited him with being- nor was he everything his detractors have charged. What next? Free them, and make them politically and socially, our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this; if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not. In closing I would yet again say thank you for freeing slaves but maybe the American public should know all the facts before declaring someone a hero. But he did act at a moment in history- and in a way that significantly changed the destiny of the black man in America. I still don’t see how Abe Lincoln was such a great man. A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. But he didn’t want anything to do with them after that.

The only credit I’ll give Lincoln will be that he actually went through with freeing the slaves. We can’t, then, make them equals…” This pushes my theory farther in my direction.

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. powerful black civil rights leaders in the nation to the white house for lunch, he then said to them “I think your race suffers very greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffers from your presence.

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