The book “Right or wrong, God judge me: the writings of John Wilkes Booth” is a collection of primary sources very similar to the book by Calloway. The primary sources within the book include, letters, newspaper advertisements, autograph manuscripts, and documents that John Wilkes Booth himself, either wrote or signed. The specific primary source type focused on in this paper will be a letter that John Wilkes Booth wrote to the editors of the National Intelligencer. Written on April 14th, 1865, the letter explains the reasoning Booth used to justify his assassination of President Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth’s first reason for the assassination is "This country was formed for the white, not for the black man. And, looking upon African slavery
John Wilkes Booth’s first reason for the assassination is "This country was formed for the white, not for the black man. And, looking upon African slavery