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Emancipation, even without deportation, would probably enhance the wages of white labor, and very surely would not reduce them.
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gutenberg.orgAbraham Lincoln: “Emancipation, even without deportation, would probably enhance the wages of white labor, and very surely would not…”
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Lincoln asserts that emancipation would likely increase wages for white laborers rather than decrease them.
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