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Mar 02, 2009
This is a fascinating, biased book by Booth's sister
It emphasized how different family members were. Booth and his sister were close, while his brothers never lived down what JW had done. Most of his brothers sympathized with the North and couldn't understand his Southern alligience. They travelled extensively in the North while JW, the youngest, grew up in the South. As was pointed out, the book couldn't even be published until the hatred had subsided, well into the twentieth century. A facinating read illuminating a soul with a misplaced vengence.
Mar 09, 2010
Fanning The Fire
Three people were instrumental in bringing slavery to the forefront of everyone's mind before and during the Civil War: Harriett Beecher Stowe of who Lincoln said, 'So this is the little lady that started this war.' William Lloyd Garrison whose 'Liberator' started the 'fire'. When asked why he was so fiery about being heard' he replied that 'I have so much ice to melt!' Then we come to Frederick Douglass who 'fanned' Garrison's fire. His story was spread all over the North by his own eloquence forged from a life of the lash. Douglass's three autobiographies in this volume shout and illuminate the savagery and brutality of slavery both in the South where it was allowed to continue daily, while in the North it was tolerated or even excused in the name of the almighty dollar. In short this book is a gem and no Lincoln, or Civil War library can be without it.
Rob Hutchins
Jul 10, 2019
Just what the plumbing doctor ordered
It is an oem replacement part and help fix my leaky faucet.