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Nathan Bedford Forrest: Southern Hero, American Patriot
Nathan Bedford Forrest Southern Hero American Patriot Author:Lochlainn Seabrook His critics have called him everything from a violent backwoodsman, illiterate redneck, and cruel slaver, to a crooked politician, unfaithful husband, and simple-minded hillbilly. Traditional Southerners, however, like Lochlainn Seabrook - author of the popular Abraham Lincoln: The Southern View - know that General Nathan Bedford Forrest ... more »was none of these things. In fact, he was quite the opposite.
Far from being an inhumane slave owner and trader, Forrest granted most of his servants their freedom even before Lincoln's War. Others he enlisted in his own command, then emancipated them in the fall of 1863 - the same year Lincoln issued his "military measure," the Emancipation Proclamation (which freed no slaves).
Forrest never separated servant families, refused to sell to cruel slavers, and was even responsible for reuniting several divided black families. Unlike Lincoln who, throughout his life, aggressively campaigned for the deportation of all blacks out of America, after the War Forrest happily hired back his original servants then called for the South to repopulate herself with new African immigrants. Neither the founder or leader of the KKK as the North teaches, Forrest closed the organization down when it began to take on racist overtones.
These and many other fascinating facts are presented clearly and concisely by Seabrook, a cousin of Forrest, in this rousing defense of one of the greatest unreconstructed Southerners in American history. Lavishly illustrated, this booklet was originally written for Confederate Veteran magazine. Foreword by best-selling author James Ronald Kennedy (The South Was Right!).
This, the 2nd edition, has been greatly expanded, improved, revised, and updated: four times as long as the 1st edition, it now includes a color cover (with a Forrest painting by acclaimed artist John Paul Strain), new information, numerous additional illustrations, an index, and a bibliography.« less