The Importance of Getting History Right, Part 7
Forgetting Flaws and Fabricating Fantasies: The Democrats’ Revisionist History
8/2/16
After the Civil War, slavery was officially terminated in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments afforded equal protection under the law and the right to vote to African Americans. How many congressional Democrats voted for these measures? The answers might surprise you. Also after the Civil War racist supporters of slavery no longer had slavery to use against blacks, so they resorted to other means, including intimidation, violence, and murder. Our journey into history this week is not especially pleasant, but it is interesting and enlightening. It’s a journey that Americans of every political persuasion need to take.
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