Lincoln won in 1860 by fusing antislavery with anti-Black equality stances

Evidence

Abraham Lincoln helped them do just that. His humble life appealed to working-class voters, his principled stance against slavery appealed to radicals, and his principled stance against Black voting and racial equality appealed to anti-Black Free Soilers. With their man in place, Republicans passed a platform that pledged not to challenge southern slavery. The pavement of the platform, what the Republicans intended to run on, was the declaration of freedom as “the normal condition of all the territories.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 566

Categorization

• XREF: This connects to the three-way scheme in Kendi’s framework: Lincoln’s platform is classic assimilationism — antislavery but anti-equality, the ‘free soil’ position.
• SEED: Angles: Lincoln as the canonical assimilationist candidate — how the ‘moderate’ antiracist anti-slavery position still excluded Black equality.