By the standards of the 1960's, was Abraham Lincoln a racist?

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People on another subreddit were talking about politics and mentioned disappointment about a certain candidate nominated by the "party of Lincoln". Another poster said that Lincoln was deeply racist and that this wasn't a good criticism to make.

Anyways, this got me to think about this...was Lincoln really a racist? People mention this on the internet pretty frequently actually and I am very curious...

Georgy_K_Zhukov

Clarification: in your title is 1960 a typo, and you mean 1860?