Perhaps the strongest attack was Lerone Bennett's Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream (2000), which claimed that Lincoln was a white supremacist who issued the Emancipation Proclamation in lieu of the real racial reforms for which radical abolitionists pushed.
Måske det stærkeste angreb kom i Lerone Bennett's Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream (2000), som hævdede, at Lincoln troede på de hvides overherredømme og udstedte Emancipationserklæringen i stedet for de ægte racereformer som abolitionisterne pressede på for.