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
The only credit I'll give Lincoln will be that he actually went through with freeing the slaves. But he didn't want anything to do with them after that. He thought that the white race was far more superior to any group of slaves. And proving this is when Lincoln said himself, in a debate held in Peoria, Illinois, that "... I think I would not hold one in slavery, at any rate; yet the point is not clear enough for me to denounce upon. 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. Whether this feeling accords with justice and sound judgme
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