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Lincoln and Race

By Alexander V. Marriott

May 29, 2014
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Following the publication of my article “Getting Lincoln Right,” someone on Facebook suggested that Lincoln opposed slavery, not because he saw it as a moral evil (as he repeatedly claimed), but because he was racist:

Lincoln clearly disliked slavery but mainly because he didn't want blacks and whites to mix blood and in several of his speeches he states…

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