More on how the framing of the 1619 series buys into the manufactured Calhoun/Taney view of American history & rejects the Lincoln & Frederick Douglass view. Note the views of John Quincy Adams, the last major American figure who could speak personally about the Founding.https://twitter.com/jadler1969/status/1164211532114173952 …
Except they did actually ban slavery in half the states, ban slavery in the first territory to come under federal control (from which five large states were formed), and ban the slave trade. They were not inactive on that front.