Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK Vadym Prystaiko
Amanpour
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The Emancipation Proclamation
The relationship between the people who were trying to settle this land and Native Americans was a precursor to their discontent with the British. American settlers in these backcountry regions had kind of almost virulent anti indigenous ideologies that are forming around British policies. And that's how those sentiments essentially find their way into the declaration. We really can't understand the ultimate legacies of the Civil War or essentially Lincoln's presidency outside of these monumental conflicts and transformations that are occurring.
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