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What Would The World Be Like If Abraham Lincoln Lived?

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What would the world be like if Abraham Lincoln lived? The western cities such as Denver and phoenix would be home to free slaves and maybe even perhaps a blacker middle class. Lincoln would have better managed the aftermath of the civil war.
Abraham Lincoln would have pushed for full rights to vote for freed blacks. Lincoln would have encouraged blacks to move out to the south. Lincoln convictions about justice and equality for 4 million slaves freed after the civil war. He never laid out a specific plan for reconstruction but if he would have lived the evidence points us toward the four paths to reconstruction which he would have likely adopted.
Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1864, that he could not avoid exacting in return universal suffrage

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