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.
It is debatable only in the sense that any old conspiratorial nonsense is debatable. The whole point of scholarly fields is to distinguish between the consensus, the fair area for debate, & the outre thesis.
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No, that defending slavery was one of a number of reasons for the American Revolution is not "conspiratorial nonsense". That it is the PRINCIPLE reason would be conspiratorial nonsense.
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