Believe Quote by Eric Foner

“Lincoln, who had a personal aversion to blacks and feared they could never be absorbed into a white society, wanted to see them settled…

— James A. Michener

Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In the Emancipation…

— Eric Foner

Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his…

— Eric Foner

“Abraham Lincoln would maintain that he had never been in favor “of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own…

— Henry Louis Gates

Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development…

— A. Philip Randolph

Abraham Lincoln was interested in, in saving the Union. Well, most negroes have been tricked into thinking that Lincoln was a negro lover whose…

— Malcolm X

I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

— Malcolm X

“12.       “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”   Abraham Lincoln”

— Rriiver Nyile

...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free…

— Sheldon Vanauken

“They took it for more than it was, or anyhow for more than it said; the container was greater than the thing contained, and…

— Shelby Foote

You pick up very well-known books on Lincoln [and] you will find almost no reference to his long-term belief in colonization. Why? Because it…

— Eric Foner