New book casts doubt on Lincoln's race legacy

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has inspired Americans for generations, but a new book claims to show startling racial contradictions on the part of the president, including covert colonisation talks with Britain.

These creative primitive grungy crafts look great as decorations in your country decor. Try placing them in baskets, old primitive boxes, old pans, wooden dough bowls. Add a sprig or two of Christmas green, pinecones, a few red berries dried, or use your imagination and see what you can come up with.German Glass Glitter, Mica Glitter, or Diamond Dust found at any craft shop or on line.Mix the following together:Bag up 6 to 12 of the various sized snowballs in a cello bag with a festive bow and the grungy primitive tag. Add a sprig of green and a bow of twine and rag strips. You can get those bags from the grocery store that are paper with the see through plastic window in the front. Those make a great for display at you craft show and are prefect for gift giving. Mix them with the waxed dipped rag balls, fill a big old blue mason ball jars. Add a vintage postcard strung on a ribbon. You can have a truly primitive grungy Christmas gift that anyone would love. You could even make a lamp with the old blue mason jar.They have to dry for 2 or 3 days at the least. Make sure you turn the balls over once or twice a day.Joint compoundIt is just like being a kid all over again, when you create one of these delightfully cool snowballs or icicles.You will need the following.

Among the records found at the British archives is an 1863 order from Lincoln granting a British agent permission to recruit volunteers for a Belize colony. "He didn't let colonisation die off. He became very active in promoting it in the private sphere, through diplomatic channels," Mr Magness said. He surmises that Lincoln grew weary of the controversy that surrounded colonisation efforts, which were criticised by many abolitionists.