"Who freed the slaves? To the extent that……" — Lerone Bennett, Jr.

Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,'… - Lerone Bennett, Jr.
"Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured into existence not by Lincoln but by the great emancipators nobody knows, the abolitionists and congressional leaders who created the climate and generated the pressure that goaded, prodded, drove, forced Lincoln into glory by associating him with a policy that he adamantly opposed for at least fifty-four of his fifty-six years of his life."

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