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ORIGINAL:SEP 21, 2012
5 Things You May Not Know About Abraham Lincoln, Slavery and Emancipation
The 16th U.S. president was firm in believing slavery was morally wrong, but his views on racial equality were sometimes more complicated.
SARAH PRUITT
1. Lincoln wasn’t an abolitionist.
Abraham Lincoln did believe that slavery was morally wrong, but there was one big problem: It was sanctioned by the highest law in the land, the Constitution. The nation’s founding fathers, who also struggled with how to address slavery, did not explicitly write the word “slavery” in the Constitution, but they did include key clauses protecting the institution, including a fugitive slave clause and the three-fifths clause, which allowed Southern states to count slaves for the purposes of representation in the federal government. In a three-hour speech in Peoria, Illinois, in the fall of 1854, Lincoln presented more clearly than ever his moral, legal and economic opposition to slavery—and then admitted he didn’t know exactly what should be done about it within the current political system.
Abolitionists, by contrast, knew exactly what should be done about it: Slavery should be immediately abolished, and freed slaves should be incorporated as equal members of society. They didn’t care about working within the existing political system, or under the Constitution, which they saw as unjustly protecting slavery and slave owners. Leading abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison called the Constitution “a covenant with death and an agreement with Hell,” and went so far as to burn a copy at a Massachusetts rally in 1854. Though Lincoln saw himself as working alongside the abolitionists on behalf of a common anti-slavery cause, he did not count himself among them. Only with emancipation, and with his support of the eventual 13th Amendment, would Lincoln finally win over the most committed abolitionists.
2. Lincoln didn’t believe blacks should have the same rights as whites.
Though Lincoln argued that the founding fathers’ phrase “All men are created equal” applied to blacks and whites alike, this did not mean he thought they should have the same social and political rights. His views became clear during an 1858 series of debates with his opponent in the Illinois race for U.S. Senate, Stephen Douglas, who had accused him of supporting “negro equality.” In their fourth debate, at Charleston, Illinois, on September 18, 1858, Lincoln made his position clear. “I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races,” he began, going on to say that he opposed blacks having the right to vote, to serve on juries, to hold office and to intermarry with whites. What he did believe was that, like all men, blacks had the right to improve their condition in society and to enjoy the fruits of their labor. In this way they were equal to white men, and for this reason slavery was inherently unjust.
Like his views on emancipation, Lincoln’s position on social and political equality for African-Americans would evolve over the course of his presidency. In the last speech of his life, delivered on April 11, 1865, he argued for limited black suffrage, saying that any black man who had served the Union during the Civil War should have the right to vote.
3. Lincoln thought colonization could resolve the issue of slavery.
For much of his career, Lincoln believed that colonization—or the idea that a majority of the African-American population should leave the United States and settle in Africa or Central America—was the best way to confront the problem of slavery. His two great political heroes, Henry Clay and Thomas Jefferson, had both favored colonization; both were slave owners who took issue with aspects of slavery but saw no way that blacks and whites could live together peaceably. Lincoln first publicly advocated for colonization in 1852, and in 1854 said that his first instinct would be “to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia” (the African state founded by the American Colonization Society in 1821).
Nearly a decade later, even as he edited the draft of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in August of 1862, Lincoln hosted a delegation of freed slaves at the White House in the hopes of getting their support on a plan for colonization in Central America. Given the “differences” between the two races and the hostile attitudes of whites towards blacks, Lincoln argued, it would be “better for us both, therefore, to be separated.” Lincoln’s support of colonization provoked great anger among black leaders and abolitionists, who argued that African-Americans were as much natives of the country as whites, and thus deserved the same rights. After he issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln never again publicly mentioned colonization, and a mention of it in an earlier draft was deleted by the time the final proclamation was issued in January 1863.
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Trump les hizo a judíos, hispanos, sudamericanos y africanoamericanos
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Lo que Trump le hizo a judíos, hispanos, sudamericanos y africanoamericanos (african american), hace 30 años se ha intentado mantener oculto, aunque finalmente ha salido a la luz y eso lo cambia todo. La campaña presidencial de 2016 hizo que algunas personas incluso a nivel global hablaran de que Trump es un racista.
Los exempleados y otras personas cercanas al mandatario lo negaron, pero parte de su pasado abrió una interesante discusión. En 1997, Trump compró la propiedad de Mar-a-Lago en Palm Beach, Florida, y pronto se convirtió en un club privado, como informo Western Journalism .
En aquel entonces, la mayoría de los clubs en Palm Beach "habían prohibido durante mucho tiempo la entrada en los mismos a judíos y africanoamericanos (african american), no siendo tampoco ajenos a esta situación hispanos, sudamericanos y otras comunitarias minoritarias. Ello significaba que claramente los clubs de aquel entonces en Palm Beach, practicaban un racismo tranquilo pero acerado", dijo Jeffrey Lord, de The American Spectator, sobre la era antes de que Trump llegara al área.
Trump "Puso la luz de alarma en Palm Beach al dar a conocer el racismo silencioso que se practicaba en los clubs de Palm Beach en aquel entonces ", dijo Abe Foxman, director nacional de la Liga Antidifamación. “No en la belleza ni el brillo, sino en el lado más sutil de la discriminación". Ello tuvo un impacto mayor" cuando Trump le pidió al ayuntamiento que hiciera algo al respecto sobre las restricciones existentes en los clubes.
También les envió una copia de "Adivina quién viene a cenar" un filme de Sídney Poitier. La película trata sobre la discriminación racial en EE.UU. de la década de 1960. El concejo municipal no hizo nada, y Trump presentó una demanda de $ 100 millones, señalando que la ciudad estaba "discriminando en Mar-a-Lago, demanda que fue publicada en The American Spectator.
Este artículo fue incluido posteriormente en 1997 en el Wall Street Journal. La gente habló mucho sobre la acción de Trump en Palm Beach. Afortunadamente, la ciudad encontró una manera de poner fin a las restricciones discriminatorias, aunque fuese de forma teóricas. Pero la verdadera solución llego posteriormente a la comprar por Trump de su propio Club en Palm Beach, que, a diferencia del resto de Clubs, él elimino cualquier restricción para pertenecer al mismo. La única condición era pagar la cuota bastante elevada, pero no importaba tu condición racial, cultural o religiosa.
Para la inauguración del mismo, Trump invito a relevantes celebridades judías y africanamericanas (african american). Esto creo muchos enemigos a Donald Trump, enemigos acaudalados y conservadores de aquel entonces. En otras palabras, mucho antes de postularse para la presidencia, estaba Donald Trump luchando contra el racismo y el antisemitismo en la sociedad de Palm Beach. Usando todas las herramientas a su disposición ", escribió Lord.
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