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In August 1862, Lincoln made clear in a response to New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley that slavery was not his primary concern. He wrote, “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union.”
Therefore, it was not Lincoln but the white Southern leaders’s inability to accept any curtailment of slavery that prevented compromise. At the start of the war, Lincoln was under immense pressure from Northern elites who had financed slavery and from Northern businessmen whose profits depended on the cotton produced in the South. The entire U.S. economy was dependent on slave labor. While enslaved people made up less than 13% of the population in 1860, their economic worth (in dehumanizing capitalist terms) was valued at more than the factories, banks, and railroads combined. This is why shortly after the South seceded, in 1861, Mayor Fernando Wood suggested to the New York City council that the city should go with
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Re: The Gay Lincoln Thing
In regard to this post a few days back, in which I perhaps overthrew my totally unconfirmed beliefs that not only was Abe Lincoln l’homosexual, and the thought that Tony Kushner might include these suspicions in my screenplay. Comparing the potential omission of such to what happened when A Beautiful Mind totally ignored John Nash’s bisexuality is a bit unfair. No one knows for sure whether Lincoln was gay. And if they don’t include it, well, I get that.
But at least we know Kushner’s thinking about it:
In an interview with the Boston Phoenix, though noted to “have nothing to do with the movie,” Kushner says he thinks there’s a possibility Lincoln was bi.
So I think we can expect at least a bit of homoeroticism Neeson’s Abe and however ends up playing Joshua Speed.
More important though, is not speculating about the movie, but understanding what these dates really mean. Take into consideration this piece that ran on Queerty today, which hammers home the three most important things to consider if this story keeps getting brought up: 1. We’ll never know if Lincoln was gay; 2. Overexcited gays (guilty) and ultraconservative bigots are going to jump on extremes of either side of the fence;