Did Abraham Lincoln hate Southerners?

Southerners feared and hated, and why was his election the catalyst that motivated them to secede? These questions reveal that Lincoln was a complicated figure, and the reasons why many leading Southerners disliked him are even more complex. read more

Abraham Lincoln is deeper than you are giving him credit for. The problem with the southern economy is they didn’t really manufacture their own food. for a long time, they imported it. All of their wealth and land was tied up in cotton and slaves. read more

Lincoln was a lot of things, but he wasn’t a hater. According to the people who knew him best, Lincoln didn’t hate Southerners. Fact is, Abraham Lincoln was a Southerner himself—at least by birth. The sixteenth President of the United States was born February 12, 1809 near Hodgenville, Kentucky. read more

It is Abraham Lincoln who invented this rhetoric; and we must ei­ther expose it for what it is or else continue to suffer the kind of abuse that manifests itself not only in anti-Southern cliches and stereotypes, but also in political exploitation and in such discriminatory legislation as the Voting Rights Acts of 1965 and gratuitous renewal in 1984. read more

But the Lincoln on the penny, the mythic Lincoln, did not exist. Instead a very real man, a political absolutist with enormous human weaknesses, for a time held the destiny of the nation in his oversized palm. read more