Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedGary Gallagher: belief
28 Jul 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee
“I think for someone who was born in Kentucky and reared in Southern Indiana and Southern Illinois, he was never around anything but a level of intensity on race that he probably didn’t ever see, wasn’t ever around white people who he could see accepting Black people as fully equal.”
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- Speaker
- Gary Gallagher
- Attribution
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 28 Jul 2026
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…Do, do we know he believed that, or is this a pragmatic politician understanding the lay of the land? I think for someone who was born in Kentucky and reared in Southern Indiana and Southern Illinois, he was never around anything but a level of intensity on race that he probably didn’t ever see, wasn’t ever around white people who he could see accepting Black people as fully equal. That’s- … I do believe that. And still, it is a country that where the words “All men are created equal” is on the page.…
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