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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That’s Du Bois’ point and Berlin’s point. Jamelle is looking at a longer arc of slave agency and resistance than just the war itself. But during the war, escaped slaves forced their consciousness upon Lincoln and the North and caused a change in the purpose of the war itself.
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"they helped set freedom in motion" definitely sounds like credit where duepic.twitter.com/z4zeptKJtG
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