The vast majority of historians of America have handled 1619 well -- with much productive debates on a host of issues. The culture war stuff came from a handful of scholars.https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1306746208237613058 …
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Two, actually. The ones claiming that preserving slavery was one of the colonists’ “primary reasons” for declaring independence, and that some of the “founders” specifically wanted to declare independence because they believed it “was required in order that slavery continue.”
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Kinda weird how it's not controversial for historians like Gordon Wood and James McPherson to make false or questionable assertions
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