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This is my favorite kind of these tweets, where a completely made-up statistic is wedded to a fact everyone learned in grade school, and both are presented as a huge discovery.
If you’ve ever taken a course on the Civil War or slavery, or read an actual book on it, or ... I don’t know ... read a Highlights magazine, you know that the percentage claim is laughably wrong.
But here, take a look at this piece by @jbouie and @rebeccaonion, which breaks down this idiotic claim and some others too: slate.com/news-and-polit…
As they noted there, the actual percentage is about nine times higher than that claim — 32% of white families in the states that seceded had slaves.
And in some states it was almost *half* the white population.
civil-war.net/pages/1860_cen…
And in some states it was almost *half* the white population.
civil-war.net/pages/1860_cen…
As clumsy as that math is, the history is even worse.
In countless speeches and the formal declarations of secession, these states made it clear they were seceding to protect slavery.
Probably because more than 4% were involved with it directly?
battlefields.org/learn/primary-…
In countless speeches and the formal declarations of secession, these states made it clear they were seceding to protect slavery.
Probably because more than 4% were involved with it directly?
battlefields.org/learn/primary-…
But hey, it’s true the Republican Party was against slavery when it was founded, so I’m sure the rest of that tweet checks out.
