Abe Lincoln @ 199

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Was there confusion?

The larger context is that the establishment and continuation of slavery has an economic basis and so does the abolishment of slavery. Slavery wasn't really abolished on a moral or religious basis of "it is unhumane/unChristian to treat nonwhites this way" just as slavery didn't begin because slave sellers and owners had nothing better to do than hate and target nonwhites.

This context serves as the context for denying blacks the right to vote and other exclusionary tactics that exist in de facto and covert forms today.