Historians are no different than lawyers, doctors, economists, scientists, or soldiers; given any argument, no matter how one-sided the evidence, you can always find some of them to argue the other side. The evidence on this point is, in fact, quite overwhelming on one side.https://twitter.com/KevinLevin/status/1440676006763773954 …
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Now, the world is complicated. Slavery was part of colonial society, & part of the wealth of its leaders. So, sure, you can't hermetically seal the two from each other. Doubtless some Patriots worried what Britain could do about that, & were outraged at Dunsmore later on.
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But the *worst* kind of history is for professional historians to gather small, true bits of the record & blow them up to obscure the larger picture of what actually happened.
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Very good comparison. Two provocative thesis’s that are at least worth examining, reveal a fuller context of the event, while ultimately failing due to a lack of evidence, and even a large assortment of contrary evidence
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The abolitionist movement caused the Civil War. Once Lincoln became the first abolitionist elected to the presidency, the South saw the writing on the wall and bailed. Slavery is literally cited in their articles of secession as a fundamental "way of life"/"state's rights" issue.
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Here is the state of Georgia in its own words:pic.twitter.com/CcD5qZ7KJ4
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Slavery did not cause the civil war; at least, it was far from the only contributing factor
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