Confederate "Heritage" Month, April 16: James Oakes on the 1619 Project (3) - Military emancipation in the American Revolution

Any portrayal of the American Revolution as being primarily a pro-slavery counter-revolution against impeding British abolition of slavery is just not tenable.

And it’s always important to keep in mind that improvements in agricultural and the new technology of the cotton gin in the 1790s gave slavery in the US a vastly expanded potential for profit. The institution of slavery itself changed - much for the worse from the freedom standpoint - and the ideology of white racism itself developed into a more intense version as the institution of slavery become more valuable for slaveowners.

Full post: https://brucemillerca.substack.com/p/confederate-heritage-month-april-c0a