While those are all significant figures, no serious person would claim that any of them was as individually important to American history as Abraham Lincoln, & the effort to make that claim is itself a sign of willful ignorance.https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/1274477289179353088 …
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He didn’t erase Lincoln or the union army. He told a key part of the story—that essentially the slaves went on the largest general strike in US history and, by doing so, changed the goal of Union from defeating the Confedracy to abolishing slavery—that most Americans don’t know.
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You're defending a different column than the one he actually wrote.
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