Talk:John Wilkes Booth/@comment-27877254-20160713205658/@comment-2601:647:200:A396:58FB:B1F9:7F96:A14E-20180715213517

Fixed it: John Wilkes Booth was the assassin of Republican President Abraham Lincoln. (By Executive Order Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, which changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people). Booth was a Confederate sympathizer during the Civil War and resented Lincoln freeing slaves ~ he vehemently denounced Lincoln and Moderate Republicans. At the time, Republicans were anti-slavery and Democrats were pro-slavery. Booth had tried to stop the success of the anti-slavery Republican Party by assassinating Lincoln.