The abolitionist claim always rested on an over-reading and over-claiming of thin evidence. But it was a myth that served centrist elites, so it flourished.https://twitter.com/jennyschuessler/status/1325948527596462080 …
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You read it here first!https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1315090002733268993 …
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More than a distillation of what was already known, however.
@Utterly_Jessie found references in AH’s cash books and family letters that appear to have not been noted before by biographers (including Chernow, who interestingly does note some of the evidence)1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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Yeah, I undersold the new evidence.
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