Just read through the Nikole Hannah-Jones opening essay of the NYT 1619 Project, and I didn't find it anti-American, but rather, an effort to explain how black Americans can take pride in being American in spite of history of slavery + racist terrorism. (1)
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But the rest of the colonies didn't have to go along with Massachusetts. I think it is obviously false that Massachusetts, where abolitionist sentiment was already stronger than in London, declared independence because they were afraid of abolition ... but Virginia? Georgia?
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I'm not saying this claim is right, but it doesn't strike me as implausible on its face; it's just an empirical question.
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And the South was the most Loyalist of the colonies. Strange if the revolt was over fear of British ending slavery.
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