[thecavemaster]

While not initially. The only country to ever fight a civil war to abolish slavery would say different.

I am sure that those "Black Africans" who were abducted and sold as human chattel would have taken great comfort for those couple hundred years before the Civil War...and perhaps their ancestors who lived under Jim Crow laws, lived under juries who acquited those who murdered their family members. Abraham Lincoln was a great man. He believed in the principles of a great country...what your response has to actually do with the Langston Hughes poem is a mystery.