TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rhodehamel,John H.
TI  - America's original sin: white supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln assassination 
SN  - 9781421441610
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Lincoln, Abraham,
KW  - Booth, John Wilkes,
KW  - White supremacy movements
KW  - United States
KW  - Race relations
KW  - History
KW  - 1849-1877
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -