2. Hanson is saying that if we think of Hemings as someone who "made deals w/Jefferson" it would "lower moral culpability." but in fact it merely shifts moral culpability: Jefferson is partly exonerated & Hemings is more guilty (of making deal to be enslaved.)
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3. Many have properly pointed out the absurdity of thinking there was any sort of non-coerced "deal" between a child enslaved at birth and the wealthy Founding father who owned her & her family. There's also Hanson's striking ignorance of how historians grapple with agency
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4. A lot of the most productive work on slavery since WWII has grappled with slavery: with trying to see how even within an oppressive system the enslaved resisted, not just in rebellion but other means (slow working, flight, culture).
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5. But the tradition of emphasizing slave agency (which really goes back to WEB Du Bois & runs through Leslie Owens & Gutman) never talks about slaves choosing their status -- it's all about resistance within the system not Hanson's individualistic model of deal making.
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Because there are lawyers of BS in Hanson's tweet worth unpacking.
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Yeah its called whitewashing and revisionist history, i dont care what anyone calls it, but it needs to be pointed out!
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This is just GRU or wannabes watering the trough. We (the non charismatically starstruck left) should show have self control than to mud wrestle a pig.
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How can so many be as sick & racist as
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This absurd discussion reminds me of Rousseau’s Confessions, end of Bk 2, where J-J finally fesses up to stealing a ribbon, the crime of which he pinned on the poor girl he wanted to give it to and ruined her life.Paul de Man gave a great analysis this act of bad faith.
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