It's nice that the AP doesn't feature the title,
Colonization After Emancipation, until the fourth paragraph. People here who think that demeaning Lincoln is demeaning American History need to ask themselves what happened to the government bequeathed to us by Jefferson and Madison. I wondered about this some 30+ years ago, and learned that everything I was taught in high school wasn't all there was to learn.
ML/NJ
People here who think that demeaning Lincoln is demeaning American History need to ask themselves what happened to the government bequeathed to us by Jefferson and Madison. I wondered about this some 30+ years ago, and learned that everything I was taught in high school wasn't all there was to learn.I also felt that way in high school. Over the years, though, I've come to realize that Jefferson's America wasn't perfect.
And it probably couldn't last. Self-described "Jeffersonians" didn't escape the kind of reproaches they made against their opponents.
Nor was Jefferson's vision the same as George Washington's. Washington valued union and had a stronger sense of nationhood than his romantic Secretary of State did.
Years of experience with Confederate sympathizers have convinced me that they don't have the whole truth either. Keep living and learning and maybe you'll come around too.