Abraham Lincoln

Growing up in the US, I too was "educated" (through government-purchased school-books and popular media) to revere Mr. Lincoln as a wise and marvelous president. Later, I ran across quotations of his that seemed to cast suspicion on his real views regarding the institution of slavery. I dismissed these as simply a reflection of the times. Lincoln, I reasoned, as a politician needed to keep peace with constituents in order to pursue a praiseworthy agenda. I was wrong about the agenda.

Reading below you will understand that the US Civil War finally resolved a century-old debate between Federalists and Anti-Federalists. It was resolved violently by Lincoln and accompanied by the death of more than 600,000 countrymen.

"Slavery was ended in 1866 with the Thirteenth Amendment, but at the cost of 620,000 lives; hundreds of thousands more that were crippled for life; and the near destruction of almost half the nation’s economy. By contrast, dozens of other countries (including Argentina, Colombia, Chile, all of Central America, Mexico, Bolivia, Uruguay, the French and Danish colonies, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela) ended slavery peacefully during the first 60 years of the nineteenth century. Why not the U.S.?" ^*

Let's Put Myths to Rest, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

The American Lenin, by L. Neil Smith

Lincoln's Spectacular Lie, by Karen De Coster

Celebrating America's First Bolshevik, by Vin Suprynowicz

Spooner's Fiety Attack on Lincolnite Hypocrisy, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Lincoln's Tariff War, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

The American Anti-Civil Liberties Union, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Rethinking the Civil War, by Tibor R. Machan

Beheading the "Great Messiah", by Karen De Coster

A Guide for the Perplexed: What’s the Matter With Abe Lincoln, by David Dieteman

Note on the Gettysburg Address, by H.L. Mencken

Lincoln's Economic Legacy, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo.

^* Thomas J. DiLorenzo