The Gettysburg Address and the Mission Not Accomplished
Category: BLACK VOICES
How could Abraham Lincoln really believe what he said in the first line of the Gettysburg Address? He said the United States had been conceived in liberty, knowing full well that the founding of the country sealed a million black people in slavery.
By Scott Hancock, Contributor
Associate Professor, History and Africana studies, Gettysburg ..., 2013-11-16