Abraham Lincoln: “Is it true, then, that colored people can displace any more white…”

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Is it true, then, that colored people can displace any more white labor by being free than by remaining slaves?

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Republican · Illinois

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Lincoln questions the validity of the argument that freed colored people would displace white labor.

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Abraham Lincoln: “Is it true, then, that colored people can displace any more white labor by being free than by remaining slaves?”