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[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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CW for genocidal racism

"But what shall we do with the negroes after they are free? I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace unless we get rid of the Negroes. Certainly they cannot, if we don't get rid of the Negroes whom we have armed and disciplined and who have fought with us, I believe, to the amount of 150,000 men. I believe it would be better to export them all..."

- Abraham Lincoln

https://archive.org/details/autobiographyper0192butl page 903