| Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1928 - 780 páginas
...jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people. . . . 'And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do...the superior position assigned to the white race.' 2 Lincoln had no fear, he said, that he or his friends would marry negroes, 'if there was no law to... | |
| 1907 - 1090 páginas
...difference between the white and black races which 1 believe wiil forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they can not so live, while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior and inferior,... | |
| Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach - 1887 - 726 páginas
...difference between the white and black races which, I believe, will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality....superior position assigned to the white race. ... I will add to this, that I have never seen, to my knowledge, a man, woman, or child who was in favor... | |
| James M. McPherson - 1995 - 188 páginas
...white. He explained this discrimination in his debate in Charleston, Illinois: "While [the two races] remain together there must be the position of superior...having the superior position assigned to the white race."24 Thus Lincoln's persistent notion of transplanting American Africans to various parts of the... | |
| Sam Wineburg - 2001 - 278 páginas
...unite as one people") and comparing it with a speech Lincoln gave in Charleston on September 18, 1858 ("I as much as any other man am in favor of having...the superior position assigned to the white race"), Hofstadter remarked that it was not easy to decide whether the true Lincoln is the one who spoke in... | |
| John V. Denson - 2001 - 830 páginas
...jurors of black people or ever allowing them to hold office or intermarry with white people.75 He was "in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race" and proposed sending all ex-slaves back to Africa.76 In his December 1, 1862, message to Congress,... | |
| G. S. Boritt - 2001 - 356 páginas
...difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality....as any other man am in favor of having the superior assigned to the white race. . . . 5 In our iconoclastic and at times cynical political age, these may... | |
| Allan H. Keith - 2002 - 76 páginas
...difference between the white and black races which l believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality....must be the position of superior and inferior, and l as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."... | |
| H.W. Brands - 2002 - 383 páginas
...they do remain together" — Lincoln flirted with the idea of sending American blacks to Africa — "there must be the position of superior and inferior;...the superior position assigned to the white race." 0 The first Jim Crow laws passed in most Southern states pertained to transportation, particularly... | |
| Shelley Fisher Fishkin - 2002 - 330 páginas
...conventional wisdom on the topic in 1858: "there must be the position of superior and inferior," he assumed, "and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."13 Sam Clemens came into the world at a time when the "black inferiority" argument — bolstered... | |
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