Cotton, a Republican, is running for reelection without a Democratic challenger.
Sen. Tom Cotton said in a newspaper interview that the Founding Fathers of the United States viewed slavery as"the necessary evil upon which the union was built," as he sought to promote a bill he has introduced that would defund schools that teach Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.
evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction.”that Cotton was citing the Founding Fathers and doesn’t personally believe that slavery was a “necessary evil.” Cotton is strongly opposed to curriculum based on the 1619 Project, which largely focuses on American history based around slavery, and his bill, called theThe 1619 Project was launched byin 2019—the 400th anniversary of African slaves’ arrival in what is now the United States—to expand on accounts of slavery from the country’s early years, which are largely left out from the historical narrative many Americans are taught.
and the Pulitzer Center have since designed a curriculum around the project, which is now being adopted in some schools.
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