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White Man Dissimilarity

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Equality among races was troublesome at this point in history, and speaking about equality between the white and the black was not an easy task. The black man was not the white man equal. Circumstances such color, moral, and intellectual endowments were among the dissimilarities between them. The idea of the white man supremacy was part of the popular predicament; thus, the government was made for the benefit and posterity of the white man. Abraham Lincoln declared that he has no purpose to introduce political and social equality between races; in fact, he was in favor of the race that he belongs. But, despite the dissimilarities among races, he thought that “There is no reason in the world, why the Negro is not entitled to all the natural

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