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Old 01-14-2010, 01:01 PM   #5 (permalink)
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He was a politician, it was a political decision. Lincoln needed popular support for the war and so he gave it a moral impetus. He was just as much a racist and believer that blacks were an inferior race as anyone else at the time.
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