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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 22

    Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Kevin M. Levin

    Historians are no different than lawyers, doctors, economists, scientists, or soldiers; given any argument, no matter how one-sided the evidence, you can always find some of them to argue the other side. The evidence on this point is, in fact, quite overwhelming on one side.https://twitter.com/KevinLevin/status/1440676006763773954 …

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    Kevin M. LevinVerified account @KevinLevin
    You wouldn't know it from reading this piece from @baseballcrank, but academic historians still disagree about how to understand the place of slavery in the coming of the Revolution. Wilentz's preoccupation with this is just downright sad. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/sean-wilentz-fires-back-on-the-1619-project-and-the-climate-of-anti-history/?taid=6149c2f2e56df4000174e53b&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter …
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      2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 22

        "Slavery caused the Revolution" is precisely as defensible as "slavery didn't cause the Civil War."

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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 22

        Now, the world is complicated. Slavery was part of colonial society, & part of the wealth of its leaders. So, sure, you can't hermetically seal the two from each other. Doubtless some Patriots worried what Britain could do about that, & were outraged at Dunsmore later on.

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      4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 22

        But the *worst* kind of history is for professional historians to gather small, true bits of the record & blow them up to obscure the larger picture of what actually happened.

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      1. Jeremy Coleman‏ @jeremycoleman Sep 22
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        Further, you are more likely to find someone to advocate for the other side if there is a patron out there waving money around in search of someone who supports a position.

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      2. Kevin M. Levin‏Verified account @KevinLevin Sep 22
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        Like I said, your piece completely ignores the fact that academic historians have taken a wide range of positions on the #1619Project. Your response suggests that you are completely unaware of this ongoing scholarly debate.

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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 22
        Replying to @KevinLevin

        No, I recognize it for what drives it. And generalizing to "a wide range of positions on the #1619Project" obscures the specific debates over particular items such as falsely treating slavery as a prime cause of the Revolution.

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      1. jimbojimbo1‏ @jimbojimbo Sep 22
        Replying to @baseballcrank @EWErickson

        Sure, but a “new” view is initially a minority view. Let things stew a bit before getting on one’s high horse.

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      1. legal beagle‏ @legalisbeaglis Sep 22
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        Correct, we all know Africans came here for the great job opportunities and religious freedom. The landed gentry in the colonies willingly freed any humans held in bondage, in support of the concept of all men being equal. It was in all the papers.

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      2. N3!L‏ @chimpvsdog Sep 22
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        It’s unquantifiable whether the country was consciously founded on slavery, or the Constitution was consciously trying to dissuade it. What we can be sure of is that slavery existed in 1619 and that it played an integral part in building the infrastructure and economy of the US.

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