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From the New York Times Opinionator column, January 15, 2013:
Emancipation -- Then What?
by Michael Vorenberg
Two weeks after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, a headline in the Detroit Free Press asked, "Is a Negro Eligible to the Presidency?" The editorial that followed offered an unequivocal "Yes." A fiercely pro-Democratic paper, The Free Press despised the fact that the presidency, along with "all official positions," could now "be open to the ni**er."
Read the rest of the artice at the following website:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/emancipation-then-what/?pagewanted=print
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Emancipation -- Then What?
by Michael Vorenberg
Two weeks after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, a headline in the Detroit Free Press asked, "Is a Negro Eligible to the Presidency?" The editorial that followed offered an unequivocal "Yes." A fiercely pro-Democratic paper, The Free Press despised the fact that the presidency, along with "all official positions," could now "be open to the ni**er."
Read the rest of the artice at the following website:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/emancipation-then-what/?pagewanted=print
Enjoy,
Unionblue
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