We all know about Abraham Lincoln, 16th president, born in log cabin, "four scores and seven years ago, and all that other good stuff. My image of Abe Lincoln in elementary school was that he freed the slaves and was caring person. I liked Abe Lincoln, but I guess they left out some details about how Abraham Lincoln really thought. I later found out in a article about Abe Lincoln that Lincoln had a dark side. He supported physically removing blacks from the U.S and taking away the right of voting, being involved in politics and juries and even marrying a white person. So why is it that if Lincoln didn't really care about blacks why did they make him such a savior of the slaves in history books when in reality he didn't really care about them? When a comment was made to Lincoln "if slavery mattered" Lincoln responded in such words that "I will be damned if I don't feel almost sorry for being elected when the n***ers is the first thing I have to attend to." When this appalling comment was heard it was not a surprise according to the article I read "Did Lincoln really Free the slaves" that it was how he always thought, he never showed any pure emotions for Blacks and his posies were not at all astonished.
So was Honest Abe as honest as we all thought ? My opinion is No absolutely not I was deceived for years to think that he was honest and caring when the truth is he didn't, conned his way into making us think he cared but as soon as he became president the truth came out.
So why did John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln? Maybe he knew something about Lincoln that no one else knew. My image was the reason why Booth killed Abe was because he hated the fact that Lincoln liked the blacks but since that was totally wrong I do not know what to believe.
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