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Doug Rees
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We should be clear about one thing: Abraham Lincoln was no believer in racial equality. He expressed his white supremacist views in no uncertain terms in his debate with Stephen Douglas at Charleston, Illinois. After being elected President, Lincoln said that he had no intention of interfering with slavery in the states where it existed, but merely wanted to keep it out of the territories. Since well over 99% of the slaves were held in the slave states, this didn't amount to much. One wonders what all the fuss was about. Even toward the end of the war, when the North was clearly on the verge of winning, Lincoln expressed the view that whites and blacks could never get along, and suggested removing American blacks to some other place, either in Africa or South America (he wasn't quite sure which). We should bear in mind, however, that Lincoln shared his white supremacist views with the vast majority of his fellow whites, in both the North and South.
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