Lincoln was an abolitionist, he wanted to abolish slavery. Period. That particular argument you’re using is unironically one only repeated by white supremacists themselves as part of he Lost Cause narratives to diminish the importance of slavery as the cause of the civil war. That he didn’t think he could wave a magic wand and make it happen is not a criticism repeated by the intellengent.
Leaving out the part of his history where his experiences during the war, specifically his interactions with freed black people, tempered his fairly typical racial views is also revisionism.
Lincoln was provably better than most white Americans on the topic at the end of his life. He even showed all signs of continued improvement in that matter at the time of his assassination.
If you mean well, which I doubt, I’d suggest spending less time trying to tear down people who were well ahead of their social curves because they weren’t perfect for their entire life, all for the purpose of what, derailing the actual point that public executions simply aren’t acceptable in a modern nation?
Now, if you want to talk about how he war crimed Indians like any other president, that’s something worth criticism even by the standards of the time.
It’d be even weirder for you to bring up on this circumstance but at least it’d be right.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23378278
Lincoln was an abolitionist, he wanted to abolish slavery. Period. That particular argument you’re using is unironically one only repeated by white supremacists themselves as part of he Lost Cause narratives to diminish the importance of slavery as the cause of the civil war. That he didn’t think he could wave a magic wand and make it happen is not a criticism repeated by the intellengent.
Leaving out the part of his history where his experiences during the war, specifically his interactions with freed black people, tempered his fairly typical racial views is also revisionism.
Lincoln was provably better than most white Americans on the topic at the end of his life. He even showed all signs of continued improvement in that matter at the time of his assassination.
If you mean well, which I doubt, I’d suggest spending less time trying to tear down people who were well ahead of their social curves because they weren’t perfect for their entire life, all for the purpose of what, derailing the actual point that public executions simply aren’t acceptable in a modern nation?
Now, if you want to talk about how he war crimed Indians like any other president, that’s something worth criticism even by the standards of the time.
It’d be even weirder for you to bring up on this circumstance but at least it’d be right.