Abraham Lincoln The Southern Vie [Hardcover]

Nearly everything youve been taught about Abraham Lincoln comes from pro-North authors and publishers. But if you want to know who he really was, youll need to read about him from the Souths perspective.

In Abraham Lincoln: The Southern View, award-winning author and Lincoln scholar Lochlainn Seabrook provides an in-depth look at our sixteenth president as seen through the eyes of Dixie. Revealed is a man completely unknown to most Americans, both North and South; an unscrupulous demagogue and anti-Christian liberal who broke hundreds of laws; ignored and even subverted the Constitution; used money from the Yankee slave trade to fund his war; sanctioned the murder of both Southern blacks (who would not enlist in the Union army) and harmless Southern noncombatants (including women and children); had tens of thousands of innocent Northerners arrested, imprisoned, and sometimes tortured and executed without charge or trial; rigged the 1860 and 1864 elections; confiscated, redistributed, and ruined private property; censored governmental debate over secession; perpetuated the first mass execution (in this case of Native-Americans) by a U.S. president, and more.

Throughout all of this, Southern historians like Mr. Seabrook estimate that some 3 million Americans, of all races, died in direct consequence of his actions. While he publically declared that his goal was to preserve the Union, he actually destroyed it. And when he later tried to alter the character of the War with his fake and illegal Emancipation Proclamation, he was formulating plans behind closed doors to deport all blacks out of America, back to their native land, as he phrased it earlier on August 21, 1858. Lincolns true agenda, as the author shows, was to demolish the idea of states rights in the South and install big government in the North. And, as the staunch supporter of American apartheid himself stated repeatedly, he was willing to do this with or without ending slaverlC0