A Bid to Revise the New York Times’s Bad History

Posted on AllSides February 18th, 2020
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“I think the important point to make about slavery is that it had existed for thousands of years without substantial criticism,” said the historian Gordon Wood in an interview last year. “But it’s the American Revolution that makes it a problem for the world. And the first real anti-slave movement takes place in North America. So this is what’s missed by these essays in the 1619 Project.”

Mr. Wood is one of the country’s leading experts on the colonial era, and he was referring to a collection of New York...

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