Phillip W. Magness
Autor de The 1619 Project: A Critique
Obras de Phillip W. Magness
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But, all said, these essays do mostly attack the 1619 Project on proper historical, historiographical, and economic grounds. The main gist is threefold, that the "New Historians of Capitalism" or NHC, those who say that modern capitalism was grounded, founded, and based on chattel slavery of African Americans: (1) do not properly define capitalism, because slavery is NOT capitalism, and they ignore slaveowners who detested free market capitalism; (2) some of the NHC writers use completely faulty economic and statistical evidence to make incorrect points about historical slavery and modern capitalism; and (3) the NHC historians ignore whole swathes of historiography on the economics of slavery, willfully ignorantly, (even to the point of denigrating Fogel and Engerman as "old white guys" who you needn't consider).
I disagree with the author's position on Lincoln and colonization. I think by the Spring of 1865 Lincoln was switching to giving black Americans citizenship and the men voting rights. He can both encourage colonization AND equality for the ones who don't want colonization. Anyway...
There are many good snippets of information here and there. It is good ammunition to fight back against the perversion that is the 1619 project. Slavery was bad, and an important part of American history, but slavery is not what America is about. This book helps.… (más)