Becoming Lincoln
A podcast on the life of Abraham Lincoln, from his ancestors to his afterlife.
Becoming Lincoln
More Than Ordinary Prejudice
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Brian Lyman
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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Abraham Lincoln's racial attitudes were complicated. He was willing to defend fugitive slaves and appears to have lived in what was (for its time) an integrated neighborhood. But he also defended a slaveholder in court, and advocated for schemes to persuade African-Americans to leave the land of their birth.