What The 1619 Project Leaves Out

National Review ^ | August 20, 2019 | Jim Geraghty

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Ministry of Propaganda is trying to make Howard Zinn live on.

[IrishBrigade]

‘slavery that existed everywhere in 1619 was on its way out as soon as Jefferson wrote “All men are created equal” in the Declaration).’

in no way shape or form did the states that formed the Confederacy think that slavery was ‘on its way out’...the slave holding states sought to increase their political clout (see the annexation of Texas as a slave state) and their northern counterparts strove to prevent this expansion so as to consolidate their own power...

[Pajamajan]

"seven times African-American soldiers mentioned, they are generally described as victims who have merely shifted from one system of subjugation and exploitation to another."

White liberals forcing African Americans to stay on the democrat plantation by hiding their true history of heroism, independence, and perseverance (in spite of racism), from them.

The democrat-communist party can not afford to have them thinking for themselves or questioning dem authority (especially in poorly run areas i.e. Baltimore- Where did all the money go?)

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[Stosh]

In the context of the premise of the New York Times, I don’t really see why it matters what the states in the Confederacy thought. Once the union was founded on the principle that “All men are created equal”, slavery had to be incompatible with that founding. So if those in the Confederacy saw things differently, the only question was whether they’d prevail, or whether slavery would go by the wayside in their loss - which it did.

Had the Confederate states succeeded in gaining autonomy, who knows what would have happened with slavery on the North American continent. But either way, slavery wasn’t going to be part of the United States (or what remained of the United States) forever - that ball was set in motion in 1776, even if it took more than eight decades to play out.