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Does The 1619 Project Have Anything To Teach Us?

The Soho Forum Debates

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The Anglo-Black Alliance That Helped Whites Declare Independence

The 1619 Project shows how enslaved people helped inadvertently bring about the independence decision on the part of whites. This informal alliance between the British and the blacks infuriated white Americans, even many who opposed slavery. Ben Franklin designed a propaganda poster in which Brits get black men to kill white men and carry off their wives and daughters. The word didn't get out until the 1619 project brought it about.

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