Why Were The Radical Republicans Radical?

[Bill Richter]

The South did not trust Lincoln. A lot of modern historians do not either. I have an essay on this in my book Sic Semper Tryrannis: Why Booth Shot Lincoln, available on Amazon.

Oddly enough, Lincoln's real plan of emancipation was to free the slaves gradually culminating in complete freedom by 1912. I do not think the war would have ben delayed much. The South saw slavery more than a labor system--it was a social division of the nation based on race. The North had its own separation policy--what later was practiced in the South too after black freedom. It was called segregation or in the vernacular, Jim Crow.