Abraham Lincoln
The Southern View



Demythologizing America's 16th President

by
Lochlainn Seabrook
Copyright © 2009 Lochlainn Seabrook

Foreword by Clint Johnson
Author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South
 

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BOOK REVIEW
Most of what we know about Lincoln today has been invented by Northern folklorists, many who were, and are, enemies of the South.  In fact, nearly every one of the 16,000 books that have been penned about Lincoln are by Northern writers and have been published by Northern publishers.

Can we honestly expect to get a true and unbiased picture of who Lincoln really was from such works?

Seabrook's new 600-page book on Lincoln - not an anti-Lincoln work, but a pro-truth one - addresses this problem by looking at the president from the South's point of view.  From this perspective we learn that Lincoln was almost nothing like we have been taught.

For example, far from being the "Great Emancipator," as a lawyer he defended slave owners, helped create laws in Illinois that limited black civil rights, and throughout his entire life lobbied to have all Americans of African descent deported out of the U.S.  He was even the head of the Illinois chapter of the American Colonization Society, an organization whose stated mission was to make America white from coast to coast.

During his two terms in office, Lincoln also committed countless crimes, among them starting a war without congressional approval, subverting the Constitution, illegally suspending habeas corpus, shutting down over 300 Northern newspapers, imprisoning or deporting fellow Northerners who advocated peace, and rigging elections.  And this is just a partial list!

Even his Emancipation Proclamation is not what is generally taught: actually a cynical political ploy, Lincoln himself called it, not a civil rights measure, but a "war measure."  For by 1863, with his army desperately in need of more manpower and an upcoming bid for re-election, its main purpose was to help him recruit an additional 180,000 black soldiers (whom he had previously banned from serving), along with their votes.  This kept him in office for a second term while enabling him to continue his War long enough to grind down the South.

As Seabrook points out, his proclamation didn't even free any slaves, for he made it active only in the Southern Confederacy, now a foreign nation, where he had no legal authority.  In truth, and contrary to Northern mythology, many tens of thousands of Southern blacks fought valiantly against Lincoln and his Yankee invaders.

These and many other fascinating facts are recounted here in a refreshing new take on America's most controversial leader.  Meticulously researched and documented, the book includes a 700-book bibliography and over 2,000 footnotes.  You will never look at Lincoln the same way again.


BOOK DESCRIPTION
♦ Author: Lochlainn Seabrook
♦ Introduction: Lochlainn Seabrook
♦ Foreword: Clint Johnson
♦ Publication type: mass market paperback, nonfiction
♦ ISBN: 0-9821899-7-4
♦ Copyright: 2009
♦ Pages: 600
♦ Illustrated: yes
♦ Cover: color, soft
♦ Binding: perfect binding
♦ Publisher: Sea Raven Press
♦ Size: 5.5" x 8.5"
♦ Categories & Keywords: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Lincoln, War for Southern Independence, Confederacy, non-fiction, American history, Southern history,  states' rights, Thomas Jefferson, John C. Calhoun, civil rights, Emancipation Proclamation, Dixie, Southern states, Northern states, Rebels, Yankees.

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