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Wed, 11 Feb 2009

4:58 PM - Lincoln

While driving back from the cafe, I heard a piece on NPR about President Lincoln.  According to someone on NPR, Lincoln had hoped the freed slaves would leave the United States.  It does bring some questions into image many have of Lincoln. 
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Lincoln - the myth

userraven
Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0000

A lot of people forget the prevailing attitudes about race during the Civil War. Most people who freed the slaves didn't feel that African-Americans were equals by any means. I read an essay about how many women (who later founded women's suffrage) were upset that the recently freed male slaves got (well in theory) voting rights before them. One of their main reasons was that they were "superior" to the freed slaves.