D’Souza claimed there were no Republicans who owned slaves in 1860 and promised he’d have to “take it back” if anyone provided “one solitary” example.
Historians gave nine examples, but he hasn’t taken it back. Instead, he retweeted it again an hour ago.
Why is #FakeHistory so dangerous?
Because the misinformation being taught in schools enables the #FakeNews being pushed by the biased media Left!
Here's how we STOP it for good 👇🏻
REVEALED: D'Souza shows how #FakeNews is built on #FakeHistory
Do you know how many Republicans owned slaves in 1860, the year before the Civil War started? The answer may surprise you if you listen to progressive (fake) historians.
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Here are four Kentucky slaveowners in 1860 who were delegates to the 1860 Republican convention:
Wow, so it turns out that this is super easy to verify. So I took 20 minutes and looked at the delegates for the 1860 Republican convention from Kentucky (where my family is from) and cross-referenced them with the 1860 slave schedules for KY: at least four delegates owned slaves
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And here are five slaveowners from Missouri who were delegates to the 1860 Republican convention:
So that's 5 of 18 Republican delegates from Missouri alone that were easily proved to own people (28%) in 1860.
Thank you @ARothmanHistory for the link to the 1860 Republican National Convention. Like shooting fish in a barrel!
#TakeItBack Dinesh!
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So that’s *ten* Republicans who were slaveowners in 1860 — and likely more from other border states.
No, this doesn’t change the fact that Democrats were overwhelmingly the party of slavery in 1860.
But it does show D’Souza’s claim of *zero* GOP slaveowners in 1860 is nonsense.
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Refuting him on this basis misses the point—ignoring the history whereby the Dems and GOP flipped positions on race after the Civil Rights acts of 1960s. Today, which is the party that celebrates Confederate monuments to slaveholding? Voter suppression? Etc.
Jun 9, 2019 · 7:19 PM UTC
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