Good old Abe, that's what has been drilled into our heads since we were little children. We were taught that there was a giant man who is called " The Great Emancipator," but that's what they would like for us to believe. Recently a packet of speeches that were handed out to my group and I and we read them over. In them contained some very startling news. From what I read I came to believe that good 'ol honest Abe was nothing of the sort. We shouldn't recognize a person who puts down another race.
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
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. But he did act at a moment in history- and in a way that significantly changed the destiny of the black man in America. 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.
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." 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 e
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