Also historical scholarship is not a finite resource or a zero sum game. The tens of thousands of books celebrating the contribution of white Americans (including white abolitionists) to the world won't disappear if we also start seeing Black Americans as agents in history.https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1274393468341833729 …
"Neither Abraham Lincoln nor the Republican Party freed the slaves. They helped set freedom in motion and eventually codified it into law with the 13th Amendment, but they were not themselves responsible for the end of slavery." This is accurate.
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