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.
No it does not contradict. The whole point is that prior to Revolution there was already a compromise in place to preserve slavery in South, with deals that included stuff like restricting spread. The point is the compromise.
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Where does it say that the compromise was in place prior to the Revolution? I haven't gotten to that part of the book yet, but I don't see where that's inferred in the review.
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"The thesis of this book, that the American na- tion was built on a compromise over slavery and that there would have been no nation unless the northern states had acquiesced to southern demands for maintenance and ex pansion of the institution"
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