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Sat 03 Mar 2011Book questions Lincoln's racial views
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address has inspired people for generations, but a new book claims to show startling racial contradictions on the part of the president, including covert colonisation talks with Britain.
As the nation celebrates the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s first inauguration, the book by a researcher at George Mason University in Fairfax said Lincoln was even more committed to colonising blacks than previously known.
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