Richmond, Virginia, April 4, 1865 -- "All those goddamned Booths" -- Caste -- "There are no more actors!" -- "I used to be a slave" -- A young Southern gentleman -- "I am myself alone!" -- John Brown's body -- The "corner-stone" -- The rise of Abraham Lincoln -- The triumph of the "black" Republicans -- Alternative facts -- File under "assassination" -- "The negro is not equal to the white man" -- "I must have Kentucky" -- "A star of the first magnitude" -- "King Abraham Africanus I" -- "We worked to capture" -- "Come retribution" -- "Right or wrong, God judge me" -- Countdown -- "Every drop of blood" -- Unhappy with history -- "Might makes right" -- Good Friday 1865 -- Black Friday 1865 -- A long, ugly night -- "Hunted like a dog" -- The last act -- Reckonings.
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.
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