You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think your race suffer very greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence. In a word, we both suffer. This physical difference between us is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think your race suffer very greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence. In a word, we both suffer.
— Abraham Lincoln Modern

Preserved the Union, ended slavery

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Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes

Date / Period

1862

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Controversial

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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln5/1:103.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext

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