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Donald Ray Pollock

Donald Ray Pollock is an American writer born in 1954 in Kentucky. His works are characterized by their depiction of rural life in the American South, known for their unique narrative style and profound social insight. more

“Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured into existence not by Lincoln but by the great emancipators nobody knows, the abolitionists and congressional leaders who created the climate and generated the pressure that goaded, prodded, drove, forced Lincoln into glory by associating him with a policy that he adamantly opposed for at least fifty-four of his fifty-six years of his life.”

Knows Years Existence Leader Four Policy Six Glory Pressure Slave Climate Fifty Amendments Nobody Knows Pressured Abolitionist Thirteenth Amendment

Author:Lerone Bennett, Jr.

“Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom have a vested interest in [him] and who are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him.”

Interest Church Theology Telling The Truth Priests Vested Interests

Author:Lerone Bennett, Jr.

“It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.”

Should Reason Government Form Individual Republican Safe Forms Of Government Compulsory

Book:Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South

Source: Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South

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