She wanted to take America back to ‘biblical truth.’ Then she won a school board seat. - The Washington Post

Green relies heavily on the work of David Barton, an amateur historian and influential figure inside today's GOP. Barton offers a largely de-racialized history of American slavery, maintaining that it wasn't rooted in white supremacy. He supports his thesis by asserting that some free Black people and Native Americans enslaved people during Colonial times. He also argues that some Black patriots held positions of influence in early America. 

His narrative doesn't account for the fact that the vast majority of the half-million enslaved people at the time of the American Revolution were Black. Nor does it acknowledge that the country's slave market was created and sustained by Whites who "bought their independence with [African] slave labor," in the words of Edmund S. Morgan, a renowned professor of Colonial American history at Yale University who died in 2013. Morgan called this the "American paradox of slavery and freedom … the rights of Englishmen supported on the wrongs of Africans." 

Barton has also drawn harsh criticism for claiming that the Founding Fathers intended to create a Christian nation — a view he summed up in a book that was pulled from circulation in 2012 after its publisher, Thomas Nelson, said there were "historical details — matters of fact, not matters of opinion — that were not supported at all."…

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