1. Abraham Lincoln - Slavery and Race
However this idea can be contradicted by his stance that slavery was a morally wrong institution stating "You do not mean color exactly? – You mean the whites are intellectually the superior of the blacks, and, therefore have the right to enslave them? ... By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with an intellect superior to your own" (Gienapp, 42). ... As a result the Whigs used Re-Colonization to compromise between expansion of slavery and abolition of it with extensive measures like the creation of Liberia, to transport blacks back to Africa from whence...
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