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Politics Chat, September 16, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson·Sep 16, 2025
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Abraham Lincoln avoided taking a public moral stand against slavery to prevent political deadlock, instead utilizing war powers to legally end enslavement.
“he refused to end enslavement for moral reasons. And his argument was that if I think it's moral to end slavery and somebody else thinks it's moral to continue slavery, how do you win that one?”
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