Once the Southern states accepted the Thirteenth Amendment, Lincoln was entirely content for the old Southern elites to resume their positions of power and for many blacks to continue in a condition little better than bondage.
Original Article: “Lincoln’s Main Target Was “Anarchy” and Secession, Not Slavery”
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