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[David Lockmiller]

(08-27-2023 10:33 AM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  

(08-27-2023 03:20 AM)Steve Wrote:  Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States” tells a different story,

I tend to focus my studies on President Lincoln and the Civil War. I shall learn more about Columbus.

I checked out Zinn's book from the San Francisco Main Public Library yesterday that "tells a different story" on Columbus. When I got home, I went to the index to search for "Columbus" true history. On the page for which I was looking, the term "Constitution" caught my attention and below that a listing by amendment with the 13th Amendment showing three text references.

Needless to say, "Lincoln history" has top priority. What did this historian have to say about President Lincoln's role in the passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution legislation that acted as the "King's cure" to the end of slavery in the United States of America forever?

The first listed passage (A People's History of the United States, Chapter - "Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom," p. 192) reads in its entirety as follows:

"Limited as it was, the Emancipation Proclamation spurred antislavery forces. By the summer of 1864, 400,000 signatures asking legislation to end slavery had been gathered and sent to Congress, something unprecedented in the history of the country. That April, the Senate had adopted the Thirteenth Amendment, declaring an end to slavery, and in January, 1865, the House of Representatives followed."

Apparently, in the opinion of "People's Historian" Zinn, President Abraham Lincoln's role in the passage of this Constitutional Amendment legislation ending slavery in the United States forever was relatively unimportant.

I disagree.