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Five Historians’ Joint Critique of New York Times “1619” Series on Slavery

 Author: admin  Published Date: December 22, 2019  1 Comment on 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…

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Historian Sean Wilentz: The End of Slavery Was Anything But Inevitable

 Author: Patrick Young  Published Date: November 23, 2019

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…

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