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Originally Posted by Guest
.......and just as a point of clarification, the whole notion of what is a liberal and what is a conservative has changed dramatically since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, was a liberal in political thought because he opposed slavery. Teddy Roosevelt was the "trust buster" who favored government regulation, which made him a flaming liberal in his time. He actually ran for POTUS later in life under the Progressive Party nomination.
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No he didn't, he wanted them ALL sent back to Africa, Liberia specifically, Liberia was CREATED as a country to repatriate slaves to Africa. He ONLY "freed" the slaves in the southern Confederate states, not the north. He said we'd NEVER live as equals.
He used slavery as a political issue.