<p>President Bush's speech in Senegal, wherein he credited Abraham Lincoln with a major role in eliminating American slavery, was not, perhaps, among his most controversial.</p>
<p>Not everyone, however, will have nodded in agreement, for revisionist historians have been ganging up on Honest Abe and depicting him as a white supremacist, who had no moral qualms about slavery but wanted to kick all black people out of the country.</p>