America's original sin : White supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln assassination /

America's original sin : White supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln assassination /

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 eman...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rhodehamel, John H. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
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.

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