• mathemachristian [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 hours ago

    I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace unless we get rid of the Negroes. Certainly they cannot, if we don’t get rid of the Negroes whom we have armed and disciplined and who have fought with us, I believe, to the amount of 150,000 men. I believe it would be better to export them all…

    https://archive.org/details/autobiographyper0192butl page 903

    i can’t find the exact source, it was in the memoirs of the general he wrote this to. I can look later when I have access to my laptop again but rest assured it is real and Lincoln was very much in favor of Liberia.

    and no, he was no john brown. Other choice lincoln quotes:

    https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/usa/government/potus-lincoln-woke.htm

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      And this has exactly what to do with what I posted? Except what happened to Lincoln was the same that happened to John Brown except John Brown was lawfully murdered. When Lincoln was alive, it could and did cost white men their lives to be anti racist.