{"id":111435,"date":"2017-11-29T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:10:13","slug":"lincoln-speaks-against-blacks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/29\/lincoln-speaks-against-blacks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Speaks Against Blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/4510\/4484\/1600\/lincoln3[1].0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/4510\/4484\/320\/lincoln3%5B1%5D.0.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: black;\">I  will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing  about in any way the social and political equality of the white and  black races; that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making  voters or jurors of negroes, nor qualifying them to hold office, nor to  intermarry with white people&#8230; <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: black;\">And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together<br \/>there  must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any  other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the  white race.<\/p>\n<p>-Abraham Lincoln, 1858<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>According  to Howard Zinn, Abraham Lincoln didn&#8217;t act against slavery until he was  desperate to win the Civil War. Throughout his entire career, Lincoln  was a man of good timing and would only pursue certain courses should  sufficient support be present. In other words, Lincoln rarely went out  on a limb and was doing what a good politician would do&#8230; pleasing his  people. <\/div>\n<div>So,  was Lincoln truly an abolitionsist, or was he simply reacting to his  public? What about the other presidents and there views on the equality  of blacks? Read pages 188-210 and use excerpts from the book to support  your argument.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor qualifying them to hold office, nor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}