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[–] Mr_NoSkill 0 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago 

Never thought of it that way but its a very accurate statement. Didn't Lincoln want to send them back?

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[–] cattarhero 0 points 24 points (+24|-0) ago 

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Lincoln, but he did want to send them back. If he had lived, we might be living in a totally different country. Also, while he was brutal in his war on the South, I believe that the Souths' "reconstruction" would not have been so brutal, if he had lived.

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[–] EdSnowden 0 points 20 points (+20|-0) ago  (edited ago)

”Anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose directly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgment, will probably for ever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.”

-Abraham Lincoln

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[–] Bullinamarket_ ago 

And since America is a heavily influential country I'm sure the rest of the world would be very different today as well.