If chattel slavery — heritable, generational, permanent, race-based slavery where it was legal to rape, torture, and sell human beings for profit — were a “necessary evil” as @TomCottonAR says, it’s hard to imagine what cannot be justified if it is a means to an end. https://twitter.com/arkansasonline/status/1287405584585809923

Not sure why the reporter interviewed a political scientist about historical accuracy. Wishe he’d spent as much time talking about pro-slavery colonists as abolitionist-leaning since the pro-slavery elements clearly won out. We cld hv abolished slavery at our founding but did not

Imagine thinking a non-divisive curriculum is one that tells Black children the buying and selling of their ancestors, the rape, torture, and forced labor of their ancestors for PROFIT, was just a “necessary evil” for the creation of the “noblest” country the world has ever seen.

So, was slavery foundational to the Union on which it was built, or nah? You heard it from @TomCottonAR himself.