• Maeve@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Tbf Lincoln opined that if continuing slavery were to spare the Union, he would be fully onboard.

    • prole@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Lincoln was a complicated man, and politics is complicated…

      But yeah, by today’s standards he was probably still pretty shitty.