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Does The 1619 Project Have Anything To Teach Us?

The Soho Forum Debates

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The Tragedy of the 1619 Project

The New York Times book the 1619 project and Hulu video series based on it are important contributions to our understanding of the role of slavery in history. Professor Holton: The original 1619 project had a faulty but unsubstantiated claim that slavery was a primary motivator of American independence. In so doing, they began to backfill and retrofit bits and pieces of history to prop up the weaker parts of their story," he says.

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