Monday, May 6, 2013

Lincoln: Beyond the Hagiography

From The Imaginative Conservative:
Left out in Steven Spielberg’s cinematic work of hagiography, Lincoln, is the fact that, as scholar Phil Magness continues to show us, the sixteenth president was devoted until his dying day to a program of African colonization as a component of any scheme of black emancipation. In this, of course, Lincoln was hardly alone. Most of those nineteenth-century Americans–North and South–who condemned slavery believed in white superiority and the inability of the black race to co-exist with the white race in America. Lincoln believed this, as did Thomas Jefferson, as did many lesser known Americans, including two prominent Philadelphia-based newspapermen, Mathew Carey and Robert Walsh. (Read entire article.)
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