My go to document is the "Cornerstone Speech". It seems there's always someone, even if you point out the secession documents that specifically name slavery (I think 7 of the 13?), will be like, "Yeah, but what about the other 6?" I think the Cornerstone Speech leaves no doubt.
God began to answer His prayer, it was His assumptions that led Him astray. May God continue to answer this part of His prayer.
"Thy servants may consummate such measures as shall result in the establishment of the principles of justice, equality and brotherly concord,--that national strifes, railing controversies, bitter recriminations and animosities may be banished from the land, while the vital doctrines of equality, self-government and constitutional freedom, shall be maintained and inviolable, and handed down to posterity as a Heaven-ordained legacy."
problem was he assumed that God did not consider black people his equal.
My go to document is the "Cornerstone Speech". It seems there's always someone, even if you point out the secession documents that specifically name slavery (I think 7 of the 13?), will be like, "Yeah, but what about the other 6?" I think the Cornerstone Speech leaves no doubt.
God began to answer His prayer, it was His assumptions that led Him astray. May God continue to answer this part of His prayer.
"Thy servants may consummate such measures as shall result in the establishment of the principles of justice, equality and brotherly concord,--that national strifes, railing controversies, bitter recriminations and animosities may be banished from the land, while the vital doctrines of equality, self-government and constitutional freedom, shall be maintained and inviolable, and handed down to posterity as a Heaven-ordained legacy."
problem was he assumed that God did not consider black people his equal.