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Presenting 'Throughline': Nikole Hannah-Jones and the war over history

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Why Did You Stick to That Argument in the Essay?

A number of historians, aa number of prominent historians, have questioned the veracity of that claim. Why did i leave it in there? Because i think it's right. For a long time, historians didn't even deal with slavery in a revolution waslargely led by slaveholders. But you have had historians who are really trying to excapate the role of slavery. And they have come up with scholarship that says that slavery played a prominent role,. particularly for virginians, south caro carolinians, in joining the revolution.

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