The 1619 Project
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 2 episodes · said 10 times in 5 episodes since 2021
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Hughes: Claim That American Revolution Fought to Preserve Slavery Is False
“The most controversial, and because it was false and poorly researched, was the idea that the 13 colonies rebelled against Britain in order to preserve slavery. That, the idea they were afraid that Britain was about to take their slaves, or about to emancipate…”
Hughes: 1619 Project Ignored Historian Leslie Harris's Fact-Checking Warnings
“They got this historian, Leslie Harris, who is a very respected historian and happens to be a black woman as well. Hey, like, look at this before we vet it. And she raised a huge red flag. She says, oh, hold on. This is totally not true, right? And they were l…”
Hughes: Nikole Hannah-Jones Claimed Black Americans Fought Alone for Civil Rights
“In Nicole Hannah-Jones's flagship essay was also that black Americans essentially fought alone in order to secure our civil rights. That was, that's the exact wording. Yeah, that we fought back alone.”