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Originally posted by sgtclub
Funny you should mention this. I was thinking over the weekend that it's not clear to me that Lincoln actually freed the slaves. Yes, I know he signed the emancipation proclamation, but he never actually went to each and every plantation to throw the shackles off each and every slave, so is it really fair to give him credit?
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The Reagan was responsible for the fall of the USSR claim is more analogous to saying that European and British cotton mills were responsible for the ending of slavery, or that whatever market they got cotton from while the south was blockaded was responsible for the ending of slavery.
Lincoln is more like Gorbachev in the world of fall of the USSR analogies.
