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Article: Dismantling Lincoln 'Myths'.(Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream)(Brief Article)(Review)
- Article from:
- The Chicago Reporter
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Abraham Lincoln was a white supremacist who "wanted to deny Blacks equal rights because of their race and deport them to a tropical clime with people of their own color and kind," argues Lerone Bennett Jr., the executive editor of Ebony magazine, in his latest book, the 626-page "Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream."
Bennett, who also authored the 1961 book, "Before the Mayflower," a survey of African American history, relies on historical documents and accounts from Lincoln's friends and fellow lawmakers to make his argument.
Bennett first dismantles the "myth" of the Emancipation Proclamation. Black and white abolitionists pushed a ...