In 19th century America, nearly any white person was a racist. ... This shows that he indeed belonged with any other white man in 19th century society that was just how America functioned at the time. ... In his famous speech at Peoria, Illinois, he states: "But in ascertaining the number of the people, for this purpose five slaves are counted as being equal to three whites. The slaves do not vote; they are only counted and so used, as to swell the influence of the white people's voted there is not instance of exact equality and the disadvantage is against us the whole chapter throug...

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The South's white population was ethnically was ethnically more homogeneous and less cosmopolitan than the North's. ... "The creation of the Confederacy was merely a political ratification of an irrevocable separation that had already taken place in the hearts and the minds of the people." ...

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