1. The freakout over the 1619 Project by the right kind of reveals how unfamiliar many people are with the basic outline of African-American history. The entire project is grounded in very mainstream scholarship -- and indeed lines of argument that go back to Douglass & du Bois.
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5. Even beginning story in 1619 (Jamestown!) is to accept very old fashioned frame for USA history. There's another way to tell the story of slavery in the Americas that would note the English were latecomers to an enterprise the Portuguese, Spanish & French pioneered.
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6. My larger thoughts on 1619 Projects and the backlash to it, here: https://www.thenation.com/article/conservative-meltdown-1619-project/ …
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Slavery is capitalism taken to its logical extreme.
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Then why didn't they have any contributors from the right if the distinction doesn't apply?
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Name a major historian of slavery who is right wing? The two that come to mind are Eugene Genovese & Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- both dead.
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