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  1. Jul 2025
    1. Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, 1865

      As I take up this office a statement must be properly made. There is not new current information to present but I hope to encourage a better future. Four years ago we were worried about a war, both parties were in social conflict. The Union divided over the legality and morality of slavery and war came. Slaves who mainly lived in the south knew this rising conflict was in relation to them. Neither party had expected the war to be this long, brutal and that it would continue even after the resolution of slavery in Congress. How could both sides be under the same God, the same religion and still have both of their prayers left unanswered.

      Slavery is now an offence to god and he wishes it to be removed. He shall pray for justice to be brought upon corrupt slave owners and the freed slaves they have hurt through emotional and physical toil; He shall pray for the end of this war. What was said three thousand years ago, must still be said. "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”

      With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in. To bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish, a just and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.

    1. Why sit ye here and die?

      This comment is on the overall speech but I'm marking it on the first line.

      Maria Stewart addressed that racism is rampant everywhere they go. She explains the effect racism has even on successful women of color. People who claim slaves are lazy don’t care enough to understand what slaves are put through. Working hard labor literally takes the life out of you, it leaves you with no passions, essentially numbing your mind of any emotion. Stewart also mentions the case of poor black families, not slaves but free blacks who and that they work hard for low wages. They are in a similar predicament.

    2. I have asked several individuals of my sex, who transact business for themselves, if providing our girls were to give them the most satisfactory references, they would not be willing to grant them an equal opportunity with others?

      Stewart is asking black women in power that run their own businesses how they are affected by their race and sex compared to white women and/or black men.

      (If this interpretation is incorrect please let me know)