However, Benjamin Franklin was not the only famous person to have had racist thoughts and spoke openly about them. One of are biggest freedom fighters in our history, Abraham Lincoln, had thoughts that freedom should be granted to people of color. But at the same time he thought that people of color shouldn’t have biologic

al equality. In the Douglas debates he was quoted saying “there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”(Gould 1858: 35) Its not that Lincoln thought blacks where evil or should be treated like animals. Lincoln thought that there was still a difference between a person of color and white Caucasians.

People of color weren’t the only people in past history to live through slavery or persecution. In fact the people who lived in America first were treated like slaves and savages. These people were the Indians. Starting in the early 1500’s immigrants and travelers from Spain sailed to America to claim the land. What they found when they got there were the natives they called Indians. The Indians welcomed the new guests to the country and along with trading showed the Spaniards the waterways and terrain. The Spaniards however found the Indians as a threat. Starting in 1542 Emperor Charles, King of Spain, ordered the conquistas against th

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