America's Original Sin: White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln Assassination
America's Original Sin: White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln Assassination On April 14, 1865, after nearly a year of conspiring, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln as the president…
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America's Original Sin: White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln Assassination
On April 14, 1865, after nearly a year of conspiring, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln as the president watched a production of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre. Twelve days later, Booth himself was fatally shot by a Union soldier after an extensive manhunt. Lincoln died the next morning.
In alternating chapters, Original Sin shows how, as Lincoln's commitment to emancipation and racial equality grew, so too did Booth's rage and hatred for Lincoln, whom he The basic outline of this story is well known even to schoolchildren; what has been obscured is Booth's motivation for the act, which remains widely misunderstood nearly 160 years after the shot from his pocket pistol echoed through the crowded theater.In this riveting new book, John Rhodehamel argues that Booth's primary motivation for his heinous crime was a growing commitment to white supremacy.