Abraham Lincoln: Saint or Sinner? by David Olusoga

In 2011 a BBC TV documentary, Abraham Lincoln: Saint or Sinner?, by David Olusoga, considered that while, to most Americans Abraham Lincoln is the nation's greatest president - a political genius who won the Civil War and ended slavery, there is a darker side to Lincoln. 150 years after the war his reputation is being re-assessed, as historians begin to uncover the dark side of his life and politics. They have revealed that the president who ended slavery secretly planned to deport the freed black people out of America. Others are asking if Lincoln should be remembered as a war hero who saved the nation or as a war criminal who launched attacks on innocent southern civilians.