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Yes Lincoln said those words but he also freed blacks.So it's your attempt to dodge history by claiming it's fake?
No. Lincoln said those words, and words like them during all the public debates he had with Douglas .
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 - Lincoln Home National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
Care to back up those phony LBJ quotes?
He was still a racist in that he believed that White people were inherently superior. Don't take it so hard, nearly everybody was back in those days. Had to be. Half the country owned slaves, so to protect the national conscience we had to convince ourselves that their inferiority was mostly to blame for their status as slaves. He was an abolitionist, which was pretty liberal at the time.
Respectfully, I don't recall ever reading anything that historically validates Lincoln being an abolitionist.
A true abolitionist would have believed in the immediate end to the practice of slavery in ALL states.
Lincoln's first priority was to preserve the union. Slaves in select states were freed by default in his accomplishing that objective.
https://www.history.com/news/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-lincoln-slavery-and-emancipation
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History overplays Lincoln's humanitarianism. His main objective was to restructure the economy of the Southern States. Massive plantation networks with up to a thousand slaves per owner had enormous financial advantages and were prone to sell directly to Europe without the consent of the central government. Taking slave labor from them accomplished their goal.
Jo
I agree that Lincoln's intentions regarding slavery have been romanticized in history, and that humanitarianism was a distant second to business and economics.