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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Were you convinced by what that author says about the 1619 Project?
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By "conceding the point" was he referencing the correction noting that the revolutionary war wasn't just motivated by preserving slavery but preserving slavery was part of it?
Because every one of those authors will be guilty on more than one occasion of a similar bit of hyberbole, usually toned down with a disclaimer in the introduction or footnotes somewhere. It's pretty common for historians championing a thesis to overstate it to make their point, even in the most scholarly of works.
1619 was a wide range of different articles, which ranged in general from good to truly excellent. As to the point on slavery being a cause of the revolutionary war, it's pretty much the same point made, ad nauseum and with many citations, by the Dred Scott court, which is always worth re-reading. Yeah, it played into it, and not insignificantly. As did taking Indian lands.
