[jeffersondem]

“Maybe “racial equality” isn’t the right word, but Dickens, who showed great compassion and love of justice in some cases had some real blind spots.”

Lincoln. What about Lincoln? Was Lincoln really a white supremacist?

[x]

Lincoln was a man of his times who grew up with the ideas common in his time.

When you look at where his thinking about race started and how far he came, it's quite impressive.

By the end of his life Lincoln was willing to countenance giving at least some African-Americans the vote -- at a time when Dickens was mocking the idea.

[BroJoeK]

jeffersondem: "Lincoln. What about Lincoln?
Was Lincoln really a white supremacist?"

In the end, Lincoln helped accomplish every goal of radical Northern abolitionists of his time.