Agreed, however,
although Lincoln was not “fighting to free the slaves’, EVERYONE knows that is Exactly what the Civil War was about.
Do you deny this ?!
And NYT project 1619 is entirely to paint the United States as evil at its founding.
“although Lincoln was not “fighting to free the slaves’, EVERYONE knows that is Exactly what the Civil War was about.”
The North’s invasion of the South was controversial at the time and remains so today.
Many people believe Lincoln “fought to free the slaves” and to overthrow the pro-slavery United States Constitution.
Maybe he did.