In front of a sold-out crowd on the campus of Boston University Wednesday, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro takes on one of the Left’s most prevalent claims: “America was built on slavery,” a claim promoted most notably in recent months by The New York Times’s 1619 Project, which seeks to reset the founding date of the country to the day when the first African slaves arrived in the colonies. “No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the years of slavery that followed,” the Times declares.
Shapiro, as the title of his speech makes clear, disagrees. “America wasn’t built on slavery, it was built on freedom,” Shapiro contends.
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