Fragment on Slavery

by Abraham Lincoln
  • August 1, 1858
Image: Slaves working in the tobacco sheds on a plantation. (c. 1670) Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Slaves_working_in_the_tobacco_sheds_on_a_plantation_(1670_painting).jpg

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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is not democracy.

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