Debunking the 1619 Project: A new book doesn’t merely debunk the 1619 Project, it totally devastates it.

American Thinker ^ | 10/05/2021 | Matthew G. Andersson

[SeekAndFind]

Debunking the 1619 Project

by Mary Grabar

Regnery History (2021)

Mary Grabar has authored a serious, mature book that should be in every American household and classroom.  Its message is so critical to understand that it might usefully serve as required reading in a test and qualification for American citizenship. There were a couple sections I found demandingly granular, but they stem from her determination to get the story re-assembled factually, as much historical detail was falsified or ignored by the 1619 project members.

Ms. Grabar “debunks,” either directly or by implication, at least four primary objects:

• the asserted significance of the date 1619;
• the asserted unique culpability of Jefferson and other Founders in American slave-labor perpetuation;
• the assertion of unique colonial and early Republic promotion of slave markets and slave trading and;
• the asserted educational value of such historical revisionism that also rests on a modern policy narrative of unresolved racial discrimination and harm in legal and financial dimensions. 

Ms. Grabar doesn’t merely "debunk” the 1619 Project, she devastates it, by a relentless, professional marshalling of facts and data, and with thoughtful argumentation, choice sourcing and careful footnotes.  For its depth in historical research, the book reads very smoothly. I found it a “page-turner” as the case she makes unfolds with surprise, pleasure and wisdom, concerning not only the facts of colonial slavery, but its larger context in American history, and indeed in a larger context still, of world history. 

It is fearless in standing up for the integrity of fact, and in challenging the coercive moralism of her object.  It is the work of someone who knows America in its strength and complexity, and even by her own experiences of coming to this country.  She effectively brings the maturity and wisdom of a wise mother correcting aberrant children. 

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[ClearCase_guy]

bfl

[DIRTYSECRET]

Waste of time article. The damage has been done. I don’t know what damage as I didn’t waste any time paying attention. So this article pushes the buttons of ours which don’t need it. They’re smarter than us people. Don’t you get it?

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Why is is a review of a book that effectively counters factually one of the most daging lies told about this country a waste of time?

Sounds like a really good resourse to make sure both us and our kids are armed with facts to counter that menace.

[Chode]

[DIRTYSECRET]

You will have to work harder than the accusers. That’s the way it is. “I am not a racist” takes away from ones argument whose ideas just might be better. 1619 Project needs to be bitch-slapped, not reasoned with. No volunteers on our side.

[Renkluaf]

Very good book. Was shocked to discover that 2% of free blacks in the South owned slaves themselves versus 6% of whites.

[nicollo]

Sad to think it, but my best hope is that this 1619 (bs)book, which already has influenced and will continue to influence generations of leftists, will be in 100 years an historical curiosity as is today Croly’s “Promise of American Life.”

As posters have stated here, the damage is done. But it is and will be important for patriots to point to it and its false premises and enduring lies.

[sauropod]

mark

[ProgressingAmerica]

I don't think the damage is done and can't be reversed, but I do think the damage is likely to be left in place due to inaction. Politics is downstream of culture, and because of this the fastest route from point A to point B is NOT a straight line.

Most of our people don't recognize this and you can see it, because far too much thought is political while far too little thought is cultural. If we are ever lucky enough to be graced by another person such as Andrew Breitbart who is capable of getting conservatives to get up in non-election years and do cultural activities such as Tea Party marches, then it can be reversed.

If not, our fate is sealed. But it's on us.

[LS]

I have a succinct 10 video series called “the 1620 Default” on my www.wildworldofhistory.com site under the VIP subscription.

I explain why the Pilgrims, NOT the Virginia Jamestown settles, embodied the “four pillars of American Exceptionalism, the two most key being a Christian, mostly Protestant religious tradition (because of congregationalism & bottom up governance) and common law, which they had on the Mayflower before they ever got ashore. This is why slavery doesn’t factor into American Exceptionalism AT ALL.

[ProgressingAmerica]

Thanks Larry. Your work is particularly important in a situation where, sadly, I have great fears that very few among us actually take history seriously.

They quote it and nothing more. Typically, because they don’t know the content the quotes are out of context.(or worse, outright fake quotes)

[I have referenced your four pillars at times, BTW.]

[Conservat1]

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