...for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together,...there must be the position of superior and inferior. I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race....

...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."22 One could argue that the incidents cited above belong to the dusty archives of our early history,...

...forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality, and inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together...having the superior position assigned to the White race. . . . Negro equality, Fudge! How long, in the government of a God great enough to make and rule...

...white. He explained this discrimination in his debate in Charleston, Illinois: "While [the two races] remain together there must be the position of superior...having the superior position assigned to the white race."24 Thus Lincoln's persistent notion of transplanting American Africans to various parts of the...

...unite as one people") and comparing it with a speech Lincoln gave in Charleston on September 18, 1858 ("I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race"), Hofstadter remarked that it was not easy to decide whether the true Lincoln is the one who...

...for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together...as any other man am in favor of having the superior assigned to the white race. . . . 5 In our iconoclastic and at times cynical political age, these may...

...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,...

...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...

...forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. "And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together...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."...

...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...