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@FightingFitzman @johndawkins @Gurdur @MoeThacker1 @LitUpMagazine1 Nope. — PolitiTweet.org

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@profblmkelley @AdinaYoffie @michaelharriot Thank you. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AdinaYoffie @BayesHive @michaelharriot The NYT did not do history, it did historically informed journalism and journalism has different mores and I also don’t understand the need to be so dismissive here. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MoeThacker1 @NYCSWH @FightingFitzman @LitUpMagazine1 Saying that denies the fact that in most places, slavery simply morphed into other forms of unfree labor. The sugar plantations of Cuba, for instance, kept Black workers in a quasi-slavery. The South remained largely agrarian with cotton rising again through sharecropping. — PolitiTweet.org

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@54thMassInfRegt @LitUpMagazine1 @FightingFitzman @johndawkins @Gurdur @MoeThacker1 Not sure why he thinks one is better than the other, as if it obviates the crime or the immorality. — PolitiTweet.org

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@LitUpMagazine1 @FightingFitzman @johndawkins @Gurdur @MoeThacker1 Further, NY had slavery until 1827. New Jersey still had enslaved people until the Civil War. Many Northerners owned slave labor camps in the South and Caribbean and the biggest slave trader in the country was in Rhode Island. — PolitiTweet.org

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@LitUpMagazine1 @FightingFitzman @johndawkins @Gurdur @MoeThacker1 The states that abolished slavery never depended on slavery as a primary labor source, did not grow year-round labor-intensive crops and still profited from slavery by selling slave-grown goods, providing ships, capital, banking, and producing textiles with slave-grown cotton. — PolitiTweet.org

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@michaelharriot @AdinaYoffie @AfricanaCarr @profblmkelley First: Ha! Second, agreed. In the acknowledgement section of 1619 book we thank the many, many scholars who advised and/or supported us in some way. But they are not cited as sources in the book, and it’s also entirely possible that not every single person we spoke w is mentioned — PolitiTweet.org

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@Paul_E_Cohen And the synergy of this type of report is it points to an entire field that many Americans weren’t aware of, and hopefully bring a attention to the scholarly works that it relied upon as well as those it did not. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Paul_E_Cohen It’s completely fair to critique framing, claims of original reporting/knowledge, and failure to cite people whose work the reporters relied upon, but the “many people know this” and they “didn’t cite all important scholars” I don’t think is fair. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Paul_E_Cohen Plenty of critiques can be made, but some of this is just not fair and is placing the practices of one field onto another. By this standard, I could have never published the 1619 Project and my essay would be panned for all the scholars and scholarship I did not read nor cite. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Paul_E_Cohen It’s not abt leaving out or ignoring, it’s about time and capacity. Unlike historiography, we are not exhaustively studying a particular narrow thing for years and years. We are spending some months trying to learn as much as we can about a sprawling subject for mass consumption. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Paul_E_Cohen I found this thread valuable and illuminating but I have to push back in the left out. Journalism is not historiography. Do you know how many historians and texts I did not read nor cite for my essay on Democracy for the 1619 Project? — PolitiTweet.org

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@FightingFitzman @johndawkins @Gurdur @MoeThacker1 @LitUpMagazine1 That’s not what we’re arguing here, is it? So now you’re being gratuitous. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AdinaYoffie @michaelharriot I’ve not seen this in the historical texts I’ve read. Would love to see examples so I can learn how to better do this. — PolitiTweet.org

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@FightingFitzman @johndawkins @Gurdur @MoeThacker1 @LitUpMagazine1 Yes. Again, as I said: motive versus result. People act like the North chose to go to war over slavery. The truth is, the North was reluctantly dragged into war, tried to resolve the war without abolishing slavery, and then ultimately realized slavery was untenable to win the war — PolitiTweet.org

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@BugandaF @LitUpMagazine1 @FightingFitzman @MoeThacker1 Yes, agree that the North wanted to limit slavery and stop its expansion to the new territories but the North had no intention of abolishing slavery, as Lincoln said so himself. Limiting and abolishing are clearly not the same thing. — PolitiTweet.org

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@LitUpMagazine1 @FightingFitzman @MoeThacker1 Did you even read the Wikipedia post you linked to? https://t.co/I5NV4ogsnU — PolitiTweet.org

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@kaveri59872487 @DLind What an incredibly insulting thing to say. — PolitiTweet.org

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