Volumes can be, and have been, on how Abraham Lincoln was far
from the president or the man that history (written by the winners in the
North) claims he is. But the funny thing is, the point can be made without
narrative from historians. The point can be made, and amply, with Lincoln’s own
words.
Edited and with commentary by Lochlainn Seabrook, The Unquotable Abraham Lincolndoes exactly that. With
chapters on the REAL Lincolnian motives of the Civil War, his views on slavery,
his Fedcentric political attitudes, his surprising opinions about black and
white culture, and more, Seabrook has amassed a revealing and, for many,
shocking collection of quotes from Lincoln that powerfully contradict the
official school textbook version of Lincoln foisted on unsuspecting students.
Lincoln’s own words reveal that slave emancipation was far from
the root cause of the Civil War. In fact, Lincoln’s goal was the maintenance of
the Union, with no regard for the sovereignty of the States. Originally – and
this is history – the states had every legal right to secede and the central
federal government was never intended to hold supremacy over the rights of the
individual states. Lincoln, however, believed otherwise, and wasn’t afraid to
use slavery as an obfuscating issue (see his words on the Emancipation
Proclamation, one of America’s greatest [in terms of effectiveness] pieces of
political propaganda).
He also backed the idea of sending slaves, if freed, back to
Africa, or exported elsewhere, wherever convenient for the U.S., however
inconvenient it might have been to others, be they slaves or the people in the
places were Lincoln would happily have sent his problem black populace. It’s
very worth noting that Lincoln also held no attitude of black-white equality.
He was quite opposed to the intermingling socially of blacks and whites, and he
certainly didn’t consider the “races” equal.
Seabrook also provides historical context for the selected
quotes. No deceptive out-of-context tricks here. This volume is physically
small but informationally huge. And if you like this one, Seabrook has other
volumes unveiling the long-suppressed truth about the Civil War.
Not everything they taught you in school was the truth. Not by a
long shot.
Reprinted from Amazon.com.
