McKinney: Over the Independence Day weekend we saw many leftists using the 1619 Project’s revisionist history to laughably argue that the main driver of the American revolution was to protect slavery. They say the colonists saw Britain becoming more and more opposed to slavery and so they fought back to protect their peculiar institution as Lincoln would later call it. There is much wrong with this ahistorical nonsense. One-piece of evidence I’d like to point your attention to is an early version of the declaration of independence. . . To watch the full segment, please click here.
