Thanks for the link, Assad. Unless I missed it, the NYT editor failed to address anything regarding matters of factual error, including the claim that the American Revolution was waged to protect slavery.
As for rc4797's comment that local school districts should have the right to accept or decline 1619 teaching materials, I have to wond…
Thanks for the link, Assad. Unless I missed it, the NYT editor failed to address anything regarding matters of factual error, including the claim that the American Revolution was waged to protect slavery.
As for rc4797's comment that local school districts should have the right to accept or decline 1619 teaching materials, I have to wonder why he considers citizens to be 'morons and bigots' when they decide to advocate for exactly that outcome.
This is them addressing that very issue. I'm not an expert on it, but they do present evidence that protection of slavery was likely on the minds of many southerners with regards to deciding for independence or not. Whether that raises to the level of a 'major cause' or not (or however it was presented in the project) is certainly up for debate, but the information presented does shed some light on the subject, and by extension onto the topic of Constitutional compromises around slavery.
Thanks for the link, Assad. Unless I missed it, the NYT editor failed to address anything regarding matters of factual error, including the claim that the American Revolution was waged to protect slavery.
As for rc4797's comment that local school districts should have the right to accept or decline 1619 teaching materials, I have to wonder why he considers citizens to be 'morons and bigots' when they decide to advocate for exactly that outcome.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/magazine/we-respond-to-the-historians-who-critiqued-the-1619-project.html
This is them addressing that very issue. I'm not an expert on it, but they do present evidence that protection of slavery was likely on the minds of many southerners with regards to deciding for independence or not. Whether that raises to the level of a 'major cause' or not (or however it was presented in the project) is certainly up for debate, but the information presented does shed some light on the subject, and by extension onto the topic of Constitutional compromises around slavery.