audiobook This Is About Black People: Part Two (This is part Two) (Volume 2) by Rosalind Solomon in History

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Abraham Lincoln: he brought freedom to the slaves; and held the Union together during the Civil War. His profound and poetic speeches are famous around the world; evidence of the greatness of American’s most beloved leader. But did you know that the sixteenth president of the United States was also a backwoods hillbilly from America’s western frontier; with a Kentucky accent so thick you could cut it? Or that he liked wrestling matches; dirty jokes; and had a reputation for telling hilarious; R-rated stories that weren’t suitable for mixed company? From his childhood working as a virtual slave for an abusive father; to sailing a river raft to New Orleans; to the Illinois General Assembly; Congress; and the White House; the story of Abraham Lincoln’s life is the story of America. He mourned the deaths of almost everyone he loved; endured marriage to a wife whose mental health issues made her a domestic abuser; and lost more elections than he won. But Abraham Lincoln believed in one thing above all: that everyone deserved a fair shot at the American dream. Why did John Wilkes Booth really shoot Abraham Lincoln? The truth is as shocking now as it was in 1865.