That's Not Us, So We're Clean (Seeing White, Part 6)
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The Moral Crusaders of Lincoln
LZ Granderson: Lincoln was not a moral crusader who was primarily out to save the enslaved black people. He says it's part of offloading racism onto the Southern bigot, right? LZ: But then you're also ignoring the North's deep investment in the Southern economy and the connection to all these other forms of white supremacy that ultimately bind the North and South very closely together with this web of racial capitalism. The cotton trade continued all the way through the Civil War because the North couldn't do without Cotton.
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