David Remnick
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Aug
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There were many slaveholders who considered themselves or would be considered in the rearview mirror as revolutionary.
How to grapple with this?
How do you grapple with that?
Right.
And there was a piece in The New Yorker not long ago by the historian Jill Lepore in which he was describing the drafting, the group editing process of the Declaration of Independence.
And if you've ever written a piece or a book, you know that editing by group is always ends in sadness.
And Jefferson himself was struggling in various drafts with the inclusion or not of
of the slavery question.
One point we should clarify is that, and something that you make clear is
is the 13 colonies that rebelled were not actually the British Empire's prize possession.
Just for clarity, what was the prize possession?
The Caribbean.
The Caribbean.
Because that's where the wealth was coming from.
I mean, sugar.
Let me ask you this.
There was a big history war hubbub in the United States not so long ago when the New York Times published its 1619 project, which began in –
I think it was 2019.
And it focused on slavery as integral to American history in the period that we're discussing.
What is your sense, Tom, of what the 1619 Project got right, what was important about it, and maybe where it fell short?
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