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But South Carolina does not repeat the preceding language in the earlier document: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal'.
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000)
[T]he one unforgivable sin, according to dominant Southern public opinion, was moral condemnation of slavery.
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000)
[T]he generation of the Founding Fathers, who certainly knew the story of Noah and his sons, nonetheless believed in the equality of the races.
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000)
According to Davis it did not require a Galileo or a Harvey (or a Darwin) to discover the natural inferiority of the Negro. All that was necessary was a visit to the District of Columbia jail!
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000)
In 1860 Senator Wilson, like Lincoln, could not ask for recognition of more than the black man's natural rights. But he showed in dramatic fashion that his argument, like Lincoln's, applied ultimately to all rights, civil and political no less than natural.
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000)
That the equality of human souls in the sight of God ought to be translated into a political structure of equal political rights has come to be regarded as the most authentic interpretation of the Gospel itself. Slavery, and the imposition of all arbitrary forms of inequality of man by man, has come to be seen as demeaning to the souls of God's creation.
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000)
[P]reservation of the Union was not a partisan policy.
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000)
South Carolina cites, loosely, but with substantial accuracy, some of the language of the original Declaration. That Declaration does say that it is the right of the people to abolish any form of government that becomes destructive of the ends for which it was established. But South Carolina does not repeat the preceding language in the earlier document: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal'.
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000)