A comprehensive and devastating take-down by @baseballcrank of another historically illiterate argument at the Times
Yes, Lincoln and the Union Freed the Slaveshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/yes-lincoln-and-the-union-freed-the-slaves/ …
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Replying to @KatzOnEarth @RichLowry
Bouie pulled 2 quotes from the Sinha book: one from page 1 of the introduction, one from page 2. Book doesn't actually address emancipation except in a summary page at the end. You should read the Paulus book. And Richard Newman's book on abolitionism. and McPherson & Wilentz,
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2. I love the way he writes that Garrison would have been irrelevant without Garrisonians like Phillip's and for a long time Douglass. He says abolition was an irrelevant minority movement. Yeah if you also dont count women and blacks in the north?
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Irrelevant? No. Marginal. There's a difference. Second-wave abolitionists were on the margins of American politics until they joined forces with the Free Soil movement. (Women didn't vote, & black Americans in the north did not always have the right to, either.)
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Replying to @baseballcrank @ProfMSinha and
OK. But what's interesting is this "marginal" group has been blamed for the Civil War since Appomattox.
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Replying to @JamesWithers3 @ProfMSinha and
Of course they were. It was easier than blaming the fire-eaters.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @ProfMSinha and
What's weird, or maybe not, is how at this late date this "marginal group" is still the problem. Heard the late historian James Irvin "Bud" Robertson Jr. offer this theory in a talk approximately 2 years ago.
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Anybody pushing that in this day & age is selling Confederate propaganda.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @ProfMSinha and
I'll admit to being surprised. However, he also didn't get why some would find memorials to Robert Lee a problem.
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