Typical of the academic school, his gestures are so orderly. The background of the 13th Amendment is more complicated than I imagined. Lincoln wanted to pass the amendment before the civil war settlement negotiations, and then force the South to accept it. However, members of the House of Representatives did not want to vote for such a controversial amend too quickly, focusing on ending the war. There are a lot of lobby or deceive plots in it. Similar to House of Cards, politics is not simple, black and white.
Realizing that a specific person has such a great influence on history, action can create something, and these things are the proof of human existence. hence I also want to do something and not just be a bystander. How important rhetoric is, persuade depends on it.
Under the historical circumstances at the time, it was impossible to mention complete equality between blacks and whites. Even radicals could only mention equality before the law. Enfranchise citizenship was even more difficult, which was included in the Fourteenth Amendment in 1866 a year later. Incarnate, the right to vote was enshrined in the Fifteenth Amendment of 1869. I feel that equality in human society is really moving forward slowly, how can I understand that women can vote at that time. What is considered absurd in the present may be more normal and equal in the future!
It restores a real Lincoln, understands his limitations and constraints at the time, and he answers the words of black women only in the hope of knowing more about black people and feeling that he can adapt to them. In the limitation, he is pushing the abolish slavery, pushing the process of history forward with his behavior, admiring it.
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