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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Barack Obama will take the oath as US president on the same Bible used to swear in president Abraham Lincoln, the committee planning his inauguration said in a statement Tuesday.
Very cool even if it's just symbolism.
Obama to take oath on Abe Lincoln's Bible - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081223/pl_afp/uspoliticsobamainaugurationlincoln - broken link)
taking a oath on a mans bible who supported northern antebellum all while speaking out against the south.
-made it illegal for blacks to migrate north into illinois
who also offered southerners to keep there slaves and way off life....
why do american politicians have to swear on a bible talk about backwards, how many presidents have we had who swore on it and decieved americans, list them
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Barack Obama will take the oath as US president on the same Bible used to swear in president Abraham Lincoln, the committee planning his inauguration said in a statement Tuesday.
Very cool even if it's just symbolism.
Obama to take oath on Abe Lincoln's Bible - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081223/pl_afp/uspoliticsobamainaugurationlincoln - broken link)
I think that is very cool too!!!
I know Abe would be very proud to know that the war he didn't want ended like this...
Just as a point of clarification, Lincoln did not believe in equal rights for Americans of African Descent. .
Lincoln was a product of his time. Some of his beliefs seem unpalatable today. In the future, those who accepted abortion will also look bad. Mores change. Values change. Times change and people with them.
It is highly doubtful that Obama had any slaves in his family unless they migrated a long way.
Most of the slaves from Africa came from the west coast, and the Portuguese slave traders didn't usually go inland to find them. They bought ther cargo from chiefs who had captured members of other tribes in battle and brought them to the coast to sell.
If there weren't enough to fill the ship after they bought all they could, they simply took the chiefs and their tribesmen who had come to sell their captives to add to the tally. If there still weren't enough, they sailed down to the next port of call.
Kenya would have been a thousand miles or more out of the way on a good day and too much trouble for the Portuguese to even consider.
The biggest slave traders were the Arabs from the East side and African tribal chiefs. Europeans bought from coastal towns where slaves were assembled in slave markets for sale.
Lincoln was a product of his time. Some of his beliefs seem unpalatable today. In the future, those who accepted abortion will also look bad. Mores change. Values change. Times change and people with them.
WOW! I never knew that! I guess I'll have to rethink my position!
The biggest slave traders were the Arabs from the East side and African tribal chiefs. Europeans bought from coastal towns where slaves were assembled in slave markets for sale.
Thanks for the update.
I am more familiar with the west side from a term paper I did for an African history course in college. My professor, Donald Abrams, was a world-class authority on the Portuguese slave trade and digressed frequently. He was referenced in most of the books I used for my paper.
East or West, the slave trade still took place on the coast, not as far into the interior of Africa as Kenya.
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taking a oath on a mans bible who supported northern antebellum all while speaking out against the south.
