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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Replying to @KevinLevin @baseballcrank
Can you provide me something from the deliberations of the Second Continental Congress that lends support to the idea that a concern over the preservation of slavery was a factor in declaring independence from Britain?
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Replying to @A_Allen_Jr @baseballcrank
You could start with reading Robert C. Parkinson's book THE COMMON CAUSE and follow
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Replying to @KevinLevin @A_Allen_Jr and
Do you agree with the distinction made by Annette Gordon-Reed here:pic.twitter.com/PL50Wt8E5T
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Replying to @the_4_Jays @KevinLevin and
Entirely reasonable.
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