"How could the founders know that slavery would become super-profitable?" is a weird argument when you think about it.https://twitter.com/seanwilentz/status/1467596700453855232 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
probably worth saying that Madison records one of the Pinckneys (Charles Cotesworth, I think) as arguing at the constitutional convention that Virginia would benefit from a ban on the importation of enslaved people because it could sell its surplus of slaves at inflated valuepic.twitter.com/RlkcRZSSus
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I say this, in seriousness, with much sincerity. Wilentz's obsession with discrediting the 1619 Project even if that means boosting or applying sloppy arguments has been one of the most disappointing things in these last two years.
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Replying to @nhannahjones @jbouie
Absolutely agree.
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