Good take. Current scholarship is revising downward the # of slaves who escaped via the UR.
I thought it was too. Thanks. Progressive historians have so diluted abolitionist efforts between 1780 and 1805 so as to almost say that they basically don’t exist.
Well then if that’s true, it’s a contradiction because then the Underground Railroad doesn’t exist. It can’t be both.
Somebody somewhere here is lying and it goes a long way to explaining how we arrived at the 1619 project with so precious few “historian objectors”.
I had a different thought about this. I wonder if the Underground Railroad is the next target for these historians? If the UR were completely erased, would that benefit progressivism? I bet it would. Why can't revisionists keep revising and revising until they simply reach zero?
If I can imagine it, that means they already have as well and it sounds to me as if the scheme is already afoot. It's easier for progressives to claim America as racist if there were no good Americans helping along slaves to freedom.
Future snowflake says: "Railroad? What railroad? It was underground? You mean like the NY subway? Did they even have the technology to build subways in the 1860s? I think you're lying. All I know is that my teachers taught me that America is racist so some underground subway sounds fraudulent to me. Now you're telling me that it wasn't a subway and it wasn't a railroad and it wasn't even under the ground? Go away, you're just making up excuses and white lies."
The progressives already erased the black heroes that fought with our Founders against the Empire. They have erased the Pilgrims, they're erasing Lincoln too. Erasing the Underground Railroad from the history books entirely would be a piece of cake. If they don't write it then it didn't happen.