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  • While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.

    Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.362, Wildside Press LLC
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