Me @NRO, with a response to @jbouie: Yes, Lincoln and the Union Freed the Slaves https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/yes-lincoln-and-the-union-freed-the-slaves/ …pic.twitter.com/zACXjlFdQU
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Anyway, I'm not surprised that the response is just lots of hand-waving & partisan tribal signaling rather than engagement with the facts. I expected nothing more.
Perhaps your point would be more effective if you didn’t call people “slaves”, as he didn’t refer to them that way in the article.
This was the universal historical usage at the time and dating back thousands of years, Everybody understands the meaning of the word. It was used metronomically in the column I was critiquing.
If your issue is with the rhetorical device of the "slaves freed the slaves" being inaccurate because others played a role then the title of your piece is just as inaccurate because surely not only Lincoln and the Union freed the slaves.
Clearly you know what was meant by that phrase was that enslaved people had agency in this narrative and were not gifted emancipation
That IS what his column was saying, if you had taken its meaning from more than just the first sentence. He is adding a heretofore under-emphasized narrative to the dominant history, and it’s a narrative that you really shouldn’t feel threatened by.
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