I was rereading the 1619 essays today and what's really shocking is that they are very sober, grounded in mainstream scholarship and fuelled by patriotism.
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I am not wasting my time reading books that have the conclusion “America rebeled against Britain to preserve slavery.” That isn’t reasonable. If you cannot adequately defend the idea in a reasonable amount of words it isn’t an idea I need to take seriously.
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