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There are two antagonistic elements of society in America, Seward had proclaimed, freedom and slavery. Freedom is in harmony with our system of government and with the spirit of the age, and is therefore passive and quiescent. Slavery is in conflict with that system, with justice, with humanity, and is therefore organized, defensive, active, and perpetually aggressive. Free labor, he said, demands universal suffrage and the widespread diffusion of knowledge. The slave-based system, by contrast cherishes ignorance because it is the only security for oppression.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

There are two antagonistic elements of society in America, Seward had proclaimed, freedom and slavery. Freedom is in harmony with our system of government and with the spirit of the age, and is therefore passive and quiescent. Slavery is in conflict with that system, with justice, with humanity, and is therefore organized, defensive, active, and perpetually aggressive. Free labor, he said, demands universal suffrage and the widespread diffusion of knowledge. The slave-based system, by contrast cherishes ignorance because it is the only security for oppression.

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About Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. She has written biographies of numerous U.S. presidents. Goodwin's book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. Goodwin produced the American television miniseries Washington. She was also executive producer of "Abraham Lincoln", a 2022 docudrama on the History Channel. This latter series was based on Goodwin's Leadership in Turbulent Times.