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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rhodehamel, John H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Assassination.

Lincoln, Abraham.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.

Assassination.

Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865.

Booth, John Wilkes.

White supremacy movements--United States.

White supremacy movements.

United States.

United States--Race relations--History.

Race relations.

History.

United States--History--1849-1877.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

470 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"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 emancipation and racial equality exacerbated Booth's hatred for Lincoln"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Richmond, Virginia, April 4, 1865

2. `All Those Goddamned Booths"

3. Caste

4. "There Are No More Actors!"

5. "I Used to Be a Slave"

6. A Young Southern Gentleman

7. "I Am Myself Alone!"

8. John Brown's Body

9. The "Corner-Stone"

10. The Rise of Abraham Lincoln

11. The Triumph of the "Black" Republicans

12. Alternative Facts

13. File under "Assassination"

14. "The Negro Is Not Equal to the White Man"

15. "I Must Have Kentucky"

16. "A Star of the First Magnitude"

17. "King Abraham Africanus I"

18. "We Worked to Capture"

19. "Come Retribution"

20. "Right or Wrong, God Judge Me"

21. Countdown

22. "Every Drop of Blood"

23. Unhappy with History

24. "Might Makes Right"

25. Good Friday, 1865

24. Black Friday, 1865

27. A Long, Ugly Night

28. "Hunted like a Dog"

29. The Last Act

30. Reckonings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781421441610

1421441616

OCLC:

1240263154