Abraham Lincoln may have freed the slaves, but he continued the policy of herding the native Americans into reservations of ever decreasing size in his quest to colonise the wild west and complete the railroad expansion from the Atlantic to the Pacific to facilitate this colonisation.
Lincoln had 38 Sioux hung all at the same time in what was, and still is, the largest mass execution in modern American history. But the Sioux had been cheated and defrauded, and forced to live in a tiny strip of land, much like the inhabitants of The Gaza Strip. As a consequence the Sioux rebelled and waged a war against the mainly German and Swedish settlers. The Sioux warriors were eventually rounded up, all found guilty of murder on the flimsiest of evidence in show trials, and all sentenced to death. However, after some pressure Lincoln pardoned all but 39 of them due to the nature of the trials and the circumstances, but deciding that he had to teach the Sioux a lesson that rebellion was not good so they wouldn't do it again he let 38 of the Sioux, who he thought could be found guilty of murder and rape, be hung on Boxing Day 1862.
A few more massacres occured under Lincoln, though whether he was personally responsible for them in one way or another is another question.
But as sad as these mass killings of native Americans under Lincoln are, they are small compared to the butchery of that turd President Andrew Jackson and his successor and co-conspirator and British agent Martin van Buren, under whom The Trail of Tears occured.
For more on Lincoln and his policy on native Americans see The Indian Policy of Abraham Lincoln by W. Dale Mason.
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