abraham lincoln. compare, if you will, the way lincoln dealt with race. he started the civil war in 1861, he was not an aboliti abolitionist, he was trying to preserve the union. it wasn t until it was going badly when he wrote the declaration proclamation. this war is more about freedom than union. he changed his views. i don t know if we re seeing president obama change his view. he has a static view on race and hasn t talked about it much. lincoln made equality the main point of the civil war. president obama has been a little absent on the views surprisingly. i don t think it s changed in 35 years. rfk campaigning hears martin
after that incident where you had people killed at the boston massacre, they made sure that that was not a show trial. they took john adams, quincy and the best attorneys available to defend the british. they took robert treat painter, signer of the declaration of the independence for the united states but a couple of them got off. this was no show trial. sam wanted to make sure justice was done and he is behind a lot of stuff. glenn: tell me a little bit about i can t wait to do the show on african-americans in the revolutionary war, because they re amazing. they re heroes. they are. glenn: but this is all white. that s all you see in the american revolution. tell me about sam adams and where he stood on slavery. i know he was an aboliti abolitionist, but is there any story you can tell? one thing that shows where he was is that people back then if they wanted to give you a gift, they would give you expensive gifts. one of the gifts you might