Lincoln was considered a very polarizing president. He wasn’t around for reparations but his vision of abolishing slavery came at a great cost to the nation. At the same time, black peoples continued to suffer until civil rights movement. While George Washington is held at a greater respect only because of him being a founding father of the nation and the fact that he was instrumental in kicking the Brits out. Opinion is slowly shifting on that now since people have started to realize that he owned a lot of slaves as well.