Lincoln was not black.
On February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born into a family of a lumberjack in Hardin County, Kentucky. Driven by the need to make a living, he worked as a shop clerk, rural postal worker, surveyor, and fence rail splitter among other jobs. In 1834, after being elected as a member of the Illinois legislature, he began his political career.
At that time, slavery was rampant in the United States. In 1854, slave owners from the South even sent a group of thugs into Kansas, forcing the implementation of the slave system through violence, which sparked the Kansas Civil War. This event...