Abraham Lincoln: "Big enough to be inconsistent."

[Rob Wick]

Bill,

There's a school of thought now that slaves were not the passive recipients of the white man's largesse, but instead did much to free themselves. While that certainly is true to a point, what's often forgotten is that for such action to take place en masse, it was necessary for the war to be fought and for Lincoln to get the ball rolling with the Emancipation Proclamation.

Best
Rob