Keep Your Friends Close And The Know-Nothing Doughfaces Closer
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Strategic Speech and Black Laws
This chapter discusses how Abraham Lincoln strategically spoke, withheld information, and focused on the long game. It explores the relationship between Lincoln and his black friends in Springfield, Illinois, living in separate legal worlds due to black laws. The chapter also delves into why Lincoln never spoke against these laws and his goal to contain slavery by appealing to the self-interest of white voters.
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