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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That's wrong. This is a more accurate way to look at it.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/opinion/juneteenth-slavery-freedom.html …
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Exactly so. Why does HJ think Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation? It was, in significant part, to bring into the war the anti-slavery feeling that so many northern soldiers wanted to fight for and northern civilians supported.
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My ancestors were quite explicit they were fighting to end slavery in 1861 when they joined the Army. I don't know how typical that was, but it appears if most Northerners were not abolitionists, they were abolition-curious.
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The level of historical dishonesty here is insane, especially considering that 100,000+ Union soldiers were themselves Black, some of whom had escaped from slavery.
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Lincoln would have been satisfied with maintaining the union *with* slavery, but that does not change that the war was about slavery. (Because the south succeeded over slavery)pic.twitter.com/xjjAzastUp
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horseshoe theory stays undefeated
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Abolition was necessary to preserve the Union, as Lincoln was aware.
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This is risibly wrong. Lincoln repeatedly made it clear he’d be willing to make a deal preserving both the Union and slavery. Only after the war became totalizing did he realize abolition was necessary.
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