What a low life racist President!!!

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He wanted to free slaves in all of the US and was vilified by the Progressives/Democrats. Today these same people want to reinstate slavery and bull whips. Freedom to them is the ability to control life from cradle to casket Thank God and Lyman we do not have to listen to their propaganda on this forum. It is refreshing to say the least.

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Abraham Lincoln is responsible for one of the boldest and most far-reaching uses of executive powers in American history by his announcement that enslaved people would soon be "forever free" on this day in history, Sept. 22, 1862.

[Major Tom]

And don't forget, slimey Joe once thought the KKK was a good thing!

[blackhawknj]

In a letter he sent to Stanton during the Atlanta Campaign, Sherman said "I am no friend of the Negro, but the government's emancipation policies have raised us up a whole host of allies".
The Emancipation Proclamation was intended to forestall the UK and France recognizing the Confederacy.