 | Kevin Reilly, Stephen Kaufman, Angela Bodino - History - 2003 - 438 pages
...together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they remain together there must be the position of superior...having the superior position assigned to the white race. Lest we choose to regard this statement as mere campaign rhetoric, I cite this private jotting,... | |
 | H.W. Brands - History - 2002 - 383 pages
...they do remain together" — Lincoln flirted with the idea of sending American blacks to Africa — "there must be the position of superior and inferior;...having 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 - History - 2002 - 330 pages
...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... | |
 | David Gordon - Business & Economics - 362 pages
...say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races. ... I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.4* In a similar context, Lincoln wrote that "If I could preserve the Union without freeing the... | |
 | Allan H. Keith - History - 2002 - 76 pages
...cannot so live, while they do remain together there 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." To repeat: Those words were spoken by Abraham Lincoln in the debate in Charleston in 1858. lf... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - 572 pages
...bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races. I am not now, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors...having the superior position assigned to the white race. Here, Lincoln echoed a view held by most Americans at mid-century. United States Supreme Court... | |
 | Melba J. Duncan - History - 2003 - 324 pages
...or 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...having the superior position assigned to the white race. Words like these must be taken in the context of the (white) political climate of the times,... | |
 | Marcus D. Pohlmann - Political Science - 2003 - 464 pages
...intermarry with white people. . . . "And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain toother there must be the position of superior and inferior,...in favor of having the superior position assigned 10 the white race." Abraham Lincoln, quoted in Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition... | |
 | Elaine Brown - Social Science - 2003 - 404 pages
...believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality . . . and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. . . . I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political... | |
 | Howard Zinn - History - 2003 - 372 pages
...favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races. ... I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."" The abolitionists went to work. To their acts of civil disobedience and of armed resistance,... | |
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I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races — that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,... 
