HISTORY: How The Revolutionary War Taught More Americans To Oppose Slavery

FROM THE FEDERALIST – By Jane Hampton Cook
The following is Jane Hampton Cook’s first couple of paragraphs from her article on the Revolutionary War and slavery. Read it in its entirety on TheFederalist.com by clicking on the image above or this link: The Federalist

“As the author of nine historical books, my heart has truly been broken at the nihilistic, all-or-nothing approach to history demonstrated by anarchists tearing down and vandalizing statues, especially of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Often spray-painted on these statues is 1619, a reference to The 1619 Project, published by The New York Times.

The fundamental [1619] claim that the Revolutionary War was fought to preserve slavery simply does not correspond with the facts, too conclusively for the point to be dismissed as mere hair-splitting. The issue is not differing interpretations of history, but an outright misinterpretation of it,” African-American scholar John McWhorter wrote on 1776Unites.com, which warns of 1619’s fallacies.”

Continued on: TheFederalist.com

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