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Originally Posted by Nameless
I don't know if he was full on racist but he wasn't really all about freeing the slaves. His central concern was keeping the union together no matter what.
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He was fully aware that abolishing slavery would be the result of his policies. He gets a total pass in my book for that. Especially considering the times.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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