Confederate "Heritage" Month 2023, April 20: About the pro-slavery part of the American Revolution
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I quoted historian David Waldstreicher in my April 9 post summarizing the view of Gerald Horne on the pro-slavery impulses behind the American Revolution. Waldstreicher, however, is more sympathetic to the general view of The 1619 Project than the historians I’ve been quoting here with approval. In a 2020 essay about the then-new conversation over that effort, he positions that discussion within long-standing historical controversies about the history of slavery and white racism in the US.
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2023, April 20: About the pro-slavery part of the American Revolution
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2023, April 20…
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2023, April 20: About the pro-slavery part of the American Revolution
I quoted historian David Waldstreicher in my April 9 post summarizing the view of Gerald Horne on the pro-slavery impulses behind the American Revolution. Waldstreicher, however, is more sympathetic to the general view of The 1619 Project than the historians I’ve been quoting here with approval. In a 2020 essay about the then-new conversation over that effort, he positions that discussion within long-standing historical controversies about the history of slavery and white racism in the US.