A Nuanced Pitch on Slavery That Nonetheless Destroys the 1619 Project
Not that a broad audience is capable of hearing a nuanced and multi-faceted argument on the nature of slavery in the Antebellum South, but maybe my audience is? Fingers-crossed?
Unfortunately, the New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project and poor historians of “new capitalism” have only added to the singular note of confusion that reigns today.
Want the deeper story? Jeffery Rogers Hummel provides it. (Podcast episode links above).
He even addresses why–if indeed the incredible wealth generated by the “free market institution of slavery” (wrong on so many fronts) was so historically prodigious–why did Brazil, with many, many more slaves than the United States, not emerge as the leading economy in the Western Hemisphere by the 19th century?
