"There were several hundred thousand white Americans who died in the Civil War in order to free the slaves," Gingrich argued.
WASHINGTON – Appearing on"Fox and Friends" on Monday morning, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that The New York Times' 1619 Project was"a lie."
Gingrich disagreed with the 1619 Project's interpretation of history, which included essays by New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, Princeton University sociologist Matthew Desmond, and Harvard University professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad. "Certainly if you're an African American, slavery is at the center of what you see at the American experience. But for most Americans, most of the time, there were a lot of other things going on," Gingrich argued, adding, "There were several hundred thousand white Americans who died in the Civil War in order to free the slaves."
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