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

Title
  1. America's original sin : White supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln assassination / John Rhodehamel.
Published by
  1. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
  2. ©2021
Author
  1. Rhodehamel, John H.

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Description
  1. 470 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "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"--
Subject
  1. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Assassination
  2. Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865
  3. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
  4. 1849-1877
  5. White supremacy movements > United States
  6. Assassination
  7. Race relations
  8. White supremacy movements
  9. United States > Race relations > History
  10. United States > History > 1849-1877
  11. United States
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. Introduction -- 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 -- 26. Black Friday, 1865 -- 27. A long, ugly night -- 28. "Hunted like a dog" -- 29. The last act -- 30. Reckonings.
Call number
  1. JFE 23-1374
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [419]-455) and index.
Author
  1. Rhodehamel, John H., author.
Title
  1. America's original sin : White supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln assassination / John Rhodehamel.
Publisher
  1. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
Copyright date
  1. ©2021
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [419]-455) and index.
Chronological term
  1. 1849-1877
LCCN
  1. 2020045988
Other standard identifier
  1. 40030730409
ISBN
  1. 9781421441610 (hardcover)
  2. 1421441616 (hardcover)
  3. 9781421441627 electronic book
Research call number
  1. JFE 23-1374
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