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Does The 1619 Project Have Anything To Teach Us?

The Soho Forum Debates

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The Wilmington Race Ride of 1898

Gene Seymour: This is a book that's full of surprises and useful in that sense. He says the most important contribution has been its success at taking facts and events that we specialists and just old timers like me have always known about, but haven't really gotten out to the wider world. Seymour: In 1967 when Oakland started open carry in California, you could do much more with black panthers than whites do today. The authors also give us a financial history showing that Thomas Jefferson often raised capital by mortgaging his slaves.

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