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 …
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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No, I don't, and I did not read that as central to her essay. I read as central to her essay the claim that America owes a large debt to Black intellectuals from Douglass to King for realizing its ideals.
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So little in the 1619 project depends on the claim that the American revolution was *principally* devoted to defending slavery, that it's absurd to criticize such a rich project on that basis.
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