If Lincoln had not died
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01-06-2013, 10:15 AM
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RE: If Lincoln had not died
What exactly could anyone have done to change people's perceptions? It's been 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, and our society (as well as those in Europe) still struggles with racism. Lincoln often said that there were far too many differences between people for whites and blacks to live together harmoniously, which is why he supported colonization and didn't want to move too quickly. Add to that the federal government's abandonment of blacks in the south which left them to the whims of white supremacists and you've got a recipe for disaster.
Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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