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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It's hilarious to me that you trace this theory back to HNJ, when any number of legal scholars and historians have written on this subject going back years. You really need to find a new hobby.
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I responded to her because she popularized it. But it is such hilariously bad history that any scholar who is peddling it really needs to find a new profession. The lineage of modern American policing from Robert Peel's London bobbies is extraordinarily well-documented.
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