A new Lincoln book, The Broken Constitution

[David Lockmiller]

(11-26-2021 12:18 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  Wondered how long it was going to take you to drag that up again. I thought Adam Hochshild wrote a very balanced review.

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Rob

Adam Hochshild wrote:

In a few ways “The 1619 Project” falls short. Hannah-Jones, for instance, still makes too much of Abraham Lincoln’s flirtation with the idea of colonization, or encouraging Black Americans to go to Africa. This surely felt insulting to Black citizens (although colonization had some Black backers), but it did not define him. On another point that earlier also drew scholarly criticism, she has made a few changes but basically remains insistent, claiming that “we might never have revolted against Britain if some of the founders had not . . . believed that independence was required in order to ensure that the institution [of slavery] would continue unmolested.” But this is untenable.