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No, not really. Mary Todd Lincoln grew up in a time when many people in the south and mid-west accepted slavery, and even had household slaves. But there is no evidence that she "liked" the practice; she probably did not speak out about it because as a child, she saw it as the norm. But that changed as she got older. In fact, Mary's grandmother seems to have been very opposed to slavery and there are some stories that she helped slaves to escape. Whether those stories are true or not, Mary was very much influenced by her grandmother, and that may be one reason she decided to be an opponent of slavery.

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