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Pt. 1: Mirage. The most famous act in U.S. history never happened ; The Emancipation Proclamation that wasn't ; Pharaoh and Moses

Pt. 2: Mirror. A fantasy for all seasons ; Prologue in blackface and whiteface

Pt. 3: Myth. Fooling all the people all the time

Pt. 4: The White dream. The last best [white] hope ; The red, white and black beginning

Pt. 5: The Jim Crow Lincoln. Backing the Black laws ; Toward the ethnic cleansing of America

Pt. 6: "The white man's charter". How to emancipate without emancipating ; A politician divided against himself ; Ignoring America's greatest moral crisis ; Supporting the great American slave hunt ; Prelude to halfness

Pt. 7: "The white man's war". "The Negro has nothing to do with it" ; The Bull Run blues ; "Linconia: Lincoln's fantasy plan for banishing Blacks

Pt. 8: The emancipators nobody knows. The emancipating Congress ; The "conversion" of Abraham Lincoln ; Lincoln asks Blacks to leave America

Pt. 9: "Let this cup pass from me". Lincoln tries to escape history ; Lincoln asks Congress to deport Blacks ; No hidin' place

Pt. 10: "Whipped into... glory". Emancipating the emancipator ; Goin' to Gettysburg, sorry I can't take you

Pt. 11: With malice towards some. Reconstruction of the white people, by the white people, for the white people ; The last Lincoln.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Relations with African Americans.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Public opinion.

Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States.

African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > 19th century.

African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century.

Public opinion > United States > History > 19th century.

United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865.