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.

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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 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

>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)

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[–] E-werd 1 points (+1|-0)

Man, I think Fort Pillow and Fort Couch should get together and take a nap.

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.

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