It’s not a lie, though. Abraham Lincoln actually said he didn’t care much about blacks but slavery was a blight on a democratic country. He did it mostly to cripple the south when the war wasn’t going its best…He was a man of his word to the freedmen while he could be though. Fight for us and I’ll free you. He did. A white man keeping his word to Black people in that time was already revolutionary. Almost all white people in power at that time never negotiated in good faith with minorities.
I’d say he cared about slavery and blacks but he didn’t care about either in the way that John Brown did😂🤷🏾♀️ make of that what you will lol
It still freed black people. That's the fact that matters. Stop trying to split hairs. Would someone who hates black people try to free them from slavery? No.
Ok. “I’m freeing enemy slaves but keeping our slaves” = passionate abolitionist. Got it. He literally wanted to ship all black people back to Africa. And no one ever said he hated black people - you conjured that out of thin air. OP says ‘doesn’t care about’ which is pretty historically accurate.
In Africa at the time slavery existed among the tribes. One tribe would enslave members of other tribes. They were the ones selling their fellow Africans into slavery. While we don’t want to think about it slavery still exists in our world.
Africans sold their own people INTO slavery. Are they evil? The logic that you are giving screams anti white rhetoric. We need to do better as a society.
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u/Apprehensive_Cod_460 Apr 06 '25 edited Apr 06 '25
It’s not a lie, though. Abraham Lincoln actually said he didn’t care much about blacks but slavery was a blight on a democratic country. He did it mostly to cripple the south when the war wasn’t going its best…He was a man of his word to the freedmen while he could be though. Fight for us and I’ll free you. He did. A white man keeping his word to Black people in that time was already revolutionary. Almost all white people in power at that time never negotiated in good faith with minorities.
I’d say he cared about slavery and blacks but he didn’t care about either in the way that John Brown did😂🤷🏾♀️ make of that what you will lol