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Does The 1619 Project Have Anything To Teach Us?

The Soho Forum Debates

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The Desmond Essay on American Capitalism

The 1619 Project is presented as a story that's never been told. The production of cotton creates an entire financial industry in the nascent United States. If you don't have slave grown cotton, there's no industrial revolution, says Julian Zelizer.

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