Yeah, poorly worded remark which lends itself to this least-charitable interpretation, as opposed to "it's an example of NHJ's narrative being wrong on the facts." But obviously erasing the abolitionist movement, in which blacks & whites worked together, is a far worse omission.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1399126717571244037 …
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I'm sorry if your approach to debates about history must reduce everything to hurt feelings.
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It's difficulty for me to interpret that wild over reaction to 1619 as being rooted in disinterested love of the truth rather than emotion.
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The war aims of the union army were not abolition but union (see the name).
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They were a much bigger part of the story than white people who thought they were fighting the British to preserve slavery!
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That’s an interesting take. Why were there ‘free’ states at all for there to be a Civil War over to keep the Union? Why didn’t the Union just let everything be slave states?Do you thinking centering slave revolts gets you a better picture or something?
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There sure weren't a whole lot of slaves, or even freed slaves, with political clout, or access to the press, or the ability to freely travel to spread abolitionism. The two marquee names, Douglass and Tubman, didn't carry the whole movement on their backs, because they couldn't.
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Because of her immense reach—best-selling novel of the century—I'd argue that Harriet Beecher Stowe had more influence on abolitionism than any single other person.
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How many black people pre-1860 were actively fighting for abolition?
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Are we pretending that the actual slaves don’t factor in here, only black people that were abolitionists?
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