I did read it very carefully. It starts with an argument that is very weak (colonists were worried that Britain would end the slave trade) and then shifts into an argument that doesn’t support the original claim (wealth from slavery gave them the power to rebell).
Respectfully, I think you are bending over backwards to avoid granting any legitimacy to specific critiques of this essay.
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I said explicitly four times that I don’t buy the claim about fear of British abolitionism! And we are not even talking about the whole esssy but one paragraph and a thesis sentence you highlighted. But yes—slavery *was* part of the rationale of VA elites if for other reasons.
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