“Lincoln said that if he could save the Union without freeing the slaves, he would…As for the Emancipation Proclamation, sir, it was an empty document. If it freed the slaves, why, a century later, are we still battling for civil rights?”
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“Lincoln said that if he could save the Union without freeing the slaves, he would…As for the Emancipation Proclamation, sir, it was an empty document. If it freed the slaves, why, a century later, are we still battling for civil rights?”
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