America's original sin : white supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln assassination /
Rhodehamel, John H.,
America's original sin : white supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln assassination / John Rhodehamel. - 470 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Richmond, Virginia, April 4, -- "All those goddamned Booths" -- Caste -- "There are no more actors!" -- "I used to be a slave" -- A young Southern gentleman -- "I am myself alone!" -- John Brown's body -- The "corner-stone" -- The rise of Abraham Lincoln -- The triumph of the "black" Republicans -- Alternative facts -- File under "assassination" -- "The negro is not equal to the white man" -- "I must have Kentucky" -- "A star of the first magnitude" -- "King Abraham Africanus I" -- "We worked to capture" -- "Come retribution" -- "Right or wrong, God judge me" -- Countdown -- "Every drop of blood" -- Unhappy with history -- "Might makes right" -- Good Friday 1865 -- Black Friday 1865 -- A long, ugly night -- "Hunted like a dog" -- The last act -- Reckonings.
"The author identifies John Wilkes Booth's primary motivation for killing Abraham Lincoln as a growing commitment to white supremacy as an ideology rather than as a political loyalty to the Confederacy. Through alternate chapters, the author shows how Lincoln's increasing acceptance of emancipation and racial equality exacerbated Booth's hatred for Lincoln"--
9781421441610 1421441616
2020045988
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Assassination.
Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865.
White supremacy movements--United States.
United States--Race relations--History.
United States--History--1849-1877.
America's original sin : white supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln assassination / John Rhodehamel. - 470 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Richmond, Virginia, April 4, -- "All those goddamned Booths" -- Caste -- "There are no more actors!" -- "I used to be a slave" -- A young Southern gentleman -- "I am myself alone!" -- John Brown's body -- The "corner-stone" -- The rise of Abraham Lincoln -- The triumph of the "black" Republicans -- Alternative facts -- File under "assassination" -- "The negro is not equal to the white man" -- "I must have Kentucky" -- "A star of the first magnitude" -- "King Abraham Africanus I" -- "We worked to capture" -- "Come retribution" -- "Right or wrong, God judge me" -- Countdown -- "Every drop of blood" -- Unhappy with history -- "Might makes right" -- Good Friday 1865 -- Black Friday 1865 -- A long, ugly night -- "Hunted like a dog" -- The last act -- Reckonings.
"The author identifies John Wilkes Booth's primary motivation for killing Abraham Lincoln as a growing commitment to white supremacy as an ideology rather than as a political loyalty to the Confederacy. Through alternate chapters, the author shows how Lincoln's increasing acceptance of emancipation and racial equality exacerbated Booth's hatred for Lincoln"--
9781421441610 1421441616
2020045988
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Assassination.
Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865.
White supremacy movements--United States.
United States--Race relations--History.
United States--History--1849-1877.