When you're calling the leading figures in a field not your own "older historians with a minority view," maybe you've outrun your own credentials.https://twitter.com/jasonintrator/status/1208570808836251650 …
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I agree with almost everything in Hannah-Jones's opening essay based on my own scholarship in the area - and what I took to be her main claims, eg that Black intellectuals led the charge to realize democratic ideals, were not contested.
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So, you agree with the central contested claim that the American Revolution was principally pro-slavery in motivation, a laughable proposition to anyone versed in the history of the period?
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