A half-dozen years ago I was irate that non-Hispanic anglo historians like Trevor Burnard could talk about American Planters' worry over Lord Mansfield's anti-slavery decision in the 1772 Somerset case, but rejected two dozen Black artists in the NYT 1619 Project. www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/m... - ThreadSky

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A half-dozen years ago I was irate that non-Hispanic anglo historians like Trevor Burnard could talk about American Planters' worry over Lord Mansfield's anti-slavery decision in the 1772 Somerset case, but rejected two dozen Black artists in the NYT 1619 Project.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/magazine/1619-project-us-history.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yE4.1JpU.8N0ePbLwdpsu&smid=bs-share

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oldmanglas.bsky.social•4 days ago

A lot of dudes decided to discredit all of the writers by attacking a single paragraph (not inaccurate, and which she later re-wrote) by the lead journalist, Nikole Hannah-Jones.

Trotskyist World Socialist Web Site lead David North joined both Fox News and Sean Wilentz, who damn well knew better.

oldmanglas.bsky.social•4 days ago

(And not just anglo; I lost some respect for a noted linguist.)

So, for Black History Month, I now show you a website of useful 1619 educational materials from the Pulitzer Center.
https://1619education.org/news/updates

oldmanglas.bsky.social•4 days ago

Part of my ire at Wilentz was his incorrect insistence that no abolitionist movements existed before the mid-1770s; this is a blatant disregard for John Wesley's anti-slavery 1774 "Thoughts Upon Slavery" and early Methodism's anti-slavery stance (which Southern Methodists abandoned, alas).

oldmanglas.bsky.social•4 days ago

Another part of my ire was that Dr. Wilentz's own arguments showed that he was wrong (e.g., when he talked about colonial newspapers).

Derek Litvak (23 Oct 2020)
"There’s a Legitimate Critique of the
1619 Project. And Then There’s Sean Wilentz"
https://clioandthecontemporary.com/2020/10/23/theres-a-legitimate-critique-of-the-1619-project-and-then-theres-sean-wilentz/

oldmanglas.bsky.social•4 days ago

We Methodists have sometimes committed terrible ills. Too many Southern Methodists embraced enslaving others. But I am glad that "Dismantle Racism" is one of our current goals, and that we seek justice.

Lawrence (13 Aug 2020)
"Slavery and the founders of Methodism"
https://www.umnews.org/en/news/slavery-and-the-founders-of-methodism

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