Your history books lied, folks. Abraham Lincoln was actually a man-eating ogre with horns and a tail who wanted to eat up all the black people. You heard it here first.

>Among the fugitive slaves who escaped above Fort Pillow to the Union navy’s river fleet was a man who said his master had described [Lincoln](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Abraham_Lincoln_O-77_matte_collodion_print.jpg) to him as a man-eating ogre “with tail and horns” who intended to “devour every one of the African race,” and lay waste to the South. >”Lord,” the slave exclaimed, “I don’t know nothing, but I knows too much for that there. I knows Master Lincoln wasn’t that kind of a person. Them there horns and tails,” he said, laughing out loud at his master’s belief in his slaves’ credulity, “I – I couldn’t swallow the horns and tails. Them was too much for *this* black man, sure.” __________________________ **Source:** Ward, Andrew. “Bonds of Wickedness.” *River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War*. Viking, 2005. 30. Print. **Original Source(s) Listed:** Wiley, *Southern Negroes*, p. 14. *Brooklyn Daily Eager*, May 12, 1862. _________________________ **Further Reading:** [Abraham Lincoln](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln)