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Yep this ^^
More importantly than his personal beliefs is the fact that the US was the only nation to fight a war over slavery vs. eliminate it peacefully. The modern man just thinks we had to fight a war to end it...
History is not as simple and neat / clean as they teach you in government schools.
As I said, Lincoln was only interested in money, money and more money. If we had settled the slavery problem as most countries did, by buying all the chattel and setting them free, it would have been expensive for the federal government. In their times, slaves were very expensive items, a couple of thousand and up when gold was twenty dollars an ounce. At least 100 ounces of gold for a slave. Think of that price to buy out all the slaveholders. BTW, who do you guess THEY were?
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I honestly do not get why so many people get their panties in a wad about saying anything critical about Lincoln. He was very unpopular before he was murdered and when you read critical revisionist history about him sourced from his own writing the picture becomes clear.
As you and others stated mainstream historians when pressed will not debate that Lincoln was more concerned about the union than slavery. That he had advocated for sending them to Africa.
I think criticizing Lincoln shows the religious type of relationship most Americans have with the state. Its like saying Jesus was married to a Christian. Its just appalling. Lincoln is akin to a deity in the religion of the state.
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Yes, you have hit the nail on the head, there. It is Lincoln worship as one of the demiurges of the state in the state religion. To attack Lincoln, or even mention that he was less than perfect is heresy. That kind of religious political heresy is just not taught or expressed in ”polite” society, now-a-days.
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