At the Hampton Roads conference to negotiate an end to the War to Prevent Southern Secession Lincoln was asked what the black slaves would do if set free without education or property. Lincoln's answer: ‘Root, hog, or die.’"

–Clyde N. Wilson, "War, reconstruction, and the end of the old republic." *Society* 33, no. 6 (September 1996): 68-74.

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