Tag: sean willentz
Posted in Abolitionists African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Memory of Reconstruction Slavery
Five Historians’ Joint Critique of New York Times “1619” Series on Slavery
One of the most talked about popular history initiatives of 2019 was the “1619” series on the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the “first…
Historian Sean Wilentz: The End of Slavery Was Anything But Inevitable
Historian Sean Wilentz has an interesting article in the New York Review of Books on how surprising the abolition of slavery was to most Americans…
Recent Comments