Was Lincoln a Racist?

[MathewSmith]

Was he pretty apathetic towards black people? How do you think? Some of my friends believe that Lincoln have said he didn't care if the country stayed one with legalized slavery or by abolishing it so long as the country did indeed stay together. So in short he didn't really care if there was slavery or no slavery he just wanted a united country and could've honestly cared less if people were enslaved. Do you agree with them?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Start here:

"Lincoln often expressed moral opposition to slavery in public and private.[1] Initially, he expected to bring about the eventual extinction of slavery by stopping its further expansion into any U.S. territory, and by proposing compensated emancipation (an offer Congress applied to Washington, D.C.) in his early presidency. Lincoln stood by the Republican Party platform in 1860, which stated that slavery should not be allowed to expand into any more territories. Lincoln believed that the extension of slavery in the South, Mid-west, and Western lands would inhibit "free labor on free soil". In the 1850s, Lincoln was politically attacked as an abolitionist, but he did not consider himself one; he did not call for the immediate end of slavery everywhere in the U.S. until the proposed 13th Amendment became part of his party platform for the 1864 election.[2]"

Abraham Lincoln and slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[gipper]

Was he pretty apathetic towards black people? How do you think? Some of my friends believe that Lincoln have said he didn't care if the country stayed one with legalized slavery or by abolishing it so long as the country did indeed stay together. So in short he didn't really care if there was slavery or no slavery he just wanted a united country and could've honestly cared less if people were enslaved. Do you agree with them?

Of course Dishonest Abe was a racist...a flagrant racist even in his time.

You would know this if you bothered to study his life for five minutes.

 

[Moonglow]

Then why did Dixie throw a fit?