Cotton told the paper, “We have to study the history of slavery and its role and impact on the development of our country because otherwise we can’t understand our country. Cotton later took to Twitter in an attempt to clarify his remarks. He responded to Teagan Goddard, the publisher of Political Wire, who tweeted, “Cotton Says Slavery Was ‘Necessary Evil.”Cotton called the tweet the “definition of fake news.”“I said that *the Founders viewed slavery as a necessary evil* and described how they put the evil institution on the path to extinction, a point frequently made by Lincoln,” Cotton tweeted. He continued, “No surprise that the 1619 Project can’t get facts right.”Multiple historians have criticized the series of articles for multiple inaccuracies, including the argument that the American Revolution was fought not to achieve independence from Britain, but to preserve the institution of slavery. Fox News' Bradford Betz contributed to this report

Source: Fox News July 27, 2020 06:33 UTC