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  • He was always ambivalent about abolition. Not a fan of slavery, sure. Maybe. But he made it clear over and over and over again that he would much rather keep the country together than free any slaves if he could.

    He also MANY times said he wouldn’t even know where freed slaves fit into American society, proposing they be shipped off to some island to colonize so he wouldn’t have to deal with them.

    It was only at the insistence of his generals that it was a military necessity or they’d lose the war that he freed some of the slaves.



  • Yes even Lincoln. He was brutal with the indigenous Americans just like all his contemporary genociders.

    And even on the subject of slavery, he was basically forced into it. He also really hampered radical reconstruction which sought to actually change the power structure, take land from slaveholders and give it to the freedmen… Went way easy on former Confederates and let them slip into (subdued, but still significant) control. He wasn’t as bad as his successor in that regard but he’s no role model. Read “Black Reconstruction in America” by W.E.B. DuBois if you’re interested.