ABE LINCOLN FREED THE SLAVES?
Yeah, right.
Slaves were taking jobs from white people and Abe freed them to release jobs for poor white people.
Yeah, right.
Slaves were taking jobs from white people and Abe freed them to release jobs for poor white people.
Lincoln said: "I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I ... am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position."
That rather sounds like a white supremacist.
He also said, "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.."
His intentions of fighting the South did NOT lie with abolishing slavery, but to save the Union.
WHY DID ABRAHAM LINCOLN FREE THE SLAVES?