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Texas governor pardons ex-Army sergeant convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester
  • Lincoln wasn't an abolitionist. He said so himself. "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.".

    His priority was preventing (and, later, winning) the war to maintain the union. He didn't seem to care about slaves at all.

    He was right smack dab in the middle of the slavers and the abolitionists. He just wanted everyone to get along. He was a centrist.

  • Texas governor pardons ex-Army sergeant convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester
  • Lincoln was a centrist. John Brown was a progressive. The radical wing of the Republican party wanted to give the freed slaves their own land so they could earn a living and let them vote, and there were enough of them in Congress that it nearly happened. Even in the context of the times Lincoln was kind of backwards. He was more concerned with placating the southern states than giving black people rights.

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