reading lincolns personal letters was... illuminating to say the least. lincoln has been so associated with freeing the slaves in school that in most americans minds that they forget he was a huge racist, like he straight up thought black people were inferior. he wanted to send them to Liberia, not give them rights!

i see republicans on TV going "the democrats founded the KKK, lincoln freed the slaves" and people just go with it because they think conservative=republican and liberal=democrat, they literally dont understand the difference between party and ideology!
its ridiculous what the south got away with after the war. andersonville prison wasnt that far off from a concentration camp. the confederacy committed thousands of war crimes during the civil war that went completely unpunished. they should've hung all the generals at
minimum. and john wilkes booth clearly had help from confederates or confederate sympathizers. why wasnt jefferson davis hung?
sorry for ranting but that shyt is infuriating