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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Again no one least of all me would downplay Lincoln's role. Lincoln himself was very uncomfortable with the imagery of this statue when he was alive, the slave on bended knee. Why did NR choose this image of the statue for the article? It says a lot about its perspective.
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Whether to credit Lincoln's role - and that of his party and the Union Army - is the entire point of this debate.
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