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Technically, Free Soilers like Samuel Portland Chase and abolitionists like John Brown, thief and kidnaper of Lewis Washington & his personal property belongings, at Harpers Ferry, VA thought BLM enough to devote their lives to it, and both had great influence on Lincoln becoming the Great Emancipator with a pen.

It begs the question for consideration what Reuters might suggest:

If Obama is the descendent of Slave Owners on his mothers side,
and on his fathers side, his father moved back to his own country of birth, the country of Kenya, on the continent of Africa, so that although Barack is an African American, he is the first in his family, and does not descend from Slaves...

Otherwise, will Reuters suggest that Obama write himself a Reparations Check?

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers/
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. effectively says that Lincoln always opposed the institution of slavery, yet Lincoln at the same time was not a champion of equality of the races.

God Love Honest Abe, though. & God Love Dred Scott.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/100585048
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The only thing that mattered to Lincoln was the preservation of the Union
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At a point in time, that likely was a top concern, all things considered.
Hopefully, Abe had a bit more room for nuanced complexity, and mystery than being so pigeon holed.

Yet, Sure, if preserving the Union meant "Sherman's Reservation" needed created, by completely decimating ones opposition, in direct flaunting of the U.S. Constitutional Rights held by Pre-Civil War property owning citizens of Coastal Georgia, then YES. He did sign the Sherman Field Order No. 15, Originating of Schemes of Secretary of War Stanton. Sherman just followed orders that Stanton Schemed, and Lincoln signed in this one example.
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Regarding a BLM originalist, James Oglethorpe in establishing the Free Colony of Georgia is Champ.

Of Abe's administration;
Samuel Portland Chase was the "Free Soil Party" gent turned Republican in Lincoln's Cabinet
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