Abraham Lincoln was said to be the illegitimate son of a Negro by Nancy Hanks. In his campaign for the Presidency he was often referred to as a Negro by his opponents. He was even depicted as a Negro. He was called Abraham Africanus the First. (Also note there were other Black Presidents prior to Washington; there is also a Black President on the back of the $2 bill) (As the photos are shown below, its no surprise that the original photo has been white washed. Have you ever wondered why Abraham Lincolns face was copper and not silver like the others? Though he freed the slaves; he only did so because of capitalism. Abraham also had negro in him which was well known. The copper penny was as black as they could get to his depiction.) What gave strength to this was that his hair was more Negroid than Caucasian. So was his color. Of his father, he said, “His face was round, his complexion swarthy, and hair, black and coarse, eyes brown.” Of himself, “Of dark complexion with coarse black hair and dark eyes.” Herndon his closest friend and law partner said he had “very dark skin.” His confidential servant, William Slade, an ex-slave and Negro, was much fairer and had straight hair. Slade looked like a white man. Herndon said, “There was something about his (Lincoln’s) origin, he never cared to dwell on.” Other writers agree with him. Coleman says, “All we know about President Lincoln’s parentage and birth under his own hand are two brief records one an entry in the Bible in his own handwriting that he was born on February 12, 1809 and the other, a brief autobiography which he gave Mr. Jesse R. Fell in December, 1859 for a campaign sketch. Lincoln had a secret preying on his mind. Was it his race? His enemies harped on it. Herndon says of it, “Lincoln often thought of committing suicide. Why? Did the knowledge of his mother’s origin or his own press the thought of suicide upon him? “It would not rebound to Lincoln’s honor to have it proved that he is part Negro. For then on the ground of a natural sympathy with his own race we might find excuses for facts which we could never pardon a white man” From the book, “The Five Negro Presidents U.S.A.” By Joel A. Rogers (1932) pp.8-9
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