Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton called the enslavement of millions of African people in the early years of the United States a 'necessary evil'. The senator argued that slavery is a critical piece of American history, saying: 'As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary 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.'
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