Not sure I see the difference between a person involuntarily transported to work for a period of year to 'earn' their freedom and how slavery was often done in the Roman world. So while I see the difference between that and chattel slavery, the term: 'involuntary indentured servitude' sounds like a corpse flower by any other name still smelling as sweet.
If much of your moral outrage about the 1619 project is based on the fact that the Africans bought to America on slave ships were technically “indentured servants” and not “slaves” - well at least not until much later. I’m not sure why that matters at all to the larger points being made.
Have you actually read the essays? Did you have a problems when you read them? Or were all your issues with the project based on the fact that it seemed to be casting some doubt on the glorious myth of American exceptionalism and that made you uneasy so you sought out any criticism of it you could find so you could rationalize your feelings? Maybe that’s not true for you. But I wonder because it does seem to be the dominant pattern in people who are incensed about it.
Not sure I see the difference between a person involuntarily transported to work for a period of year to 'earn' their freedom and how slavery was often done in the Roman world. So while I see the difference between that and chattel slavery, the term: 'involuntary indentured servitude' sounds like a corpse flower by any other name still smelling as sweet.
If much of your moral outrage about the 1619 project is based on the fact that the Africans bought to America on slave ships were technically “indentured servants” and not “slaves” - well at least not until much later. I’m not sure why that matters at all to the larger points being made.
Have you actually read the essays? Did you have a problems when you read them? Or were all your issues with the project based on the fact that it seemed to be casting some doubt on the glorious myth of American exceptionalism and that made you uneasy so you sought out any criticism of it you could find so you could rationalize your feelings? Maybe that’s not true for you. But I wonder because it does seem to be the dominant pattern in people who are incensed about it.