It's clear that some readers have not seen Dinesh D'Souza's "Hillary's America".  Whether you're liberal, conservative, or whatever, it really is educational in an entertaining way.  I've even heard D'Souza dare anyone to name one Republican slave owner.  The point being, Democrats were the slave owners, and Lincoln's Republican Party fought the Democrats to free the slaves.  In addition, it was Democrats Robert Byrd and Al Gore's father who filibustered against the Civil Rights Act in 1964.  Republicans favored the Civil Rights Act by a far greater margin than Democrats did.