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 …
Phil Magness has walked through thishttps://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/1619-project-new-york-times-king-cotton-thesis/ …
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I enjoyed that piece. It contests the 400% claim, but goes pretty far on a pretty thin basis in contesting the rest of Desmond's analysis. The relationship between capitalism and slavery, eg the role of property rights in figures like Calhoun, is too much to get into on twitter
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It also way overstates its critique IMO.
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