Slavery

February 5, 2020|1619 Project, Jill Lepore, Slavery

These Truths Were Made for You and Me

Lepore’s book reads like an effort to create a storyline that could help us to restore a lost world, but it is not history.

October 2, 2019|1619 Project, Slavery

Assessing the 1619 Project: A Law & Liberty Symposium

by Law & Liberty Editors|6 Comments

Promotional image for 1619 Project (New York Times).

What happens when our study of history becomes a casualty of identity politics?

October 2, 2019|1619 Project, Slavery, William Lloyd Garrison

America’s Exceptional Guilt

by Jason Ross|8 Comments

Statue of William Lloyd Garrison on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, MA, USA (age fotostock / Alamy Stock Photo).

For the 1619 Project, even the Garrisonian solution—of demanding that Americans open their borders and their national identity—will never suffice.

October 2, 2019|1619 Project, John Rolfe, Slavery

"Landing Negroes at Jamestown from Dutch man-of-war, 1619" an illustration in Harper's Monthly Magazine, v. 102, 1901 Jan., p. 172. Image: Everett Historical Photos / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-53345.

A look at the complexities of Virginia in 1619 suggests that assigning blame for slavery is a complex business.

October 2, 2019|1619 Project, Abraham Lincoln, American Founding, Declaration of Independence, New York Times, Slavery

The New York Times Resurrects the Positive Good Slavery Argument

by W. B. Allen|3 Comments

Advertisement for "American slavery distinguished from the slavery of English theorists, and justified by the law of Nature" by Rev. Samuel Seabury, D.D.

The “1619 Project” can deliver on its promissory only by enslaving free labor.

September 4, 2019|Abraham Lincoln, America, American history, Bill McClay, Civic Education, Howard Zinn, Land of Hope, Slavery

An Invitation to the Land of Hope: A Conversation with Bill McClay

by Wilfred M. McClay|3 Comments

Bill McClay talks with Richard Reinsch about his new book, Land of Hope.

August 21, 2019|Frederick Douglass, Free Speech, Slavery

Frederick Douglass’s “Plea for Freedom of Speech in Boston”

by Frederick Douglass, Kurt T. Lash|8 Comments

Frederick Douglass statue on January 6, 2013 in Harlem, New York. (photo by stockelements, shutterstock.com)

A man’s right to speak does not depend upon where he was born or upon his color. The simple quality of manhood is the solid basis of the right.

April 29, 2019|British Empire, India, Jeremy Black, postcolonialism, Slavery

In Empire’s Wake

by Theodore Dalrymple|3 Comments

British Lion in Trafalgar Square, London, UK (Marco Rubino / Shutterstock.com).

We live in an age of politically shrill history: Imperial Legacies is a fine, subtle, and bracing attempt to counter this polemical misuse of history.

October 12, 2018|commercial republic, Connecticut Compromise, Constitutional Convention, Electoral College, Equality, Gordon Wood, Slavery