Coleman Hughes argues that American slavery is not historically unique compared to practices worldwide.
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Hughes: 90% of New World Slaves Were Captured by African Tribes
“90% of the slaves that came to America or came to the new world, let's say, were originally captured and enslaved by other African tribes, by stronger African tribes, by victorious African tribes, and were sold to Europeans. Not at the point of a gun, but just…”
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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…”
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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…”
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Hughes: Birth Control Accelerated Out-of-Wedlock Births by Eroding Shotgun Marriage
“Akerloff argues once those things come on board, you get this slow diffusion of a totally new market terms where, you know, people expected birth control and the pill to get rid of unwanted pregnancies, but it actually had the opposite effect because it destro…”
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Hughes: Slave-Picked Cotton Accounted for Only 3% of 19th-Century US Economy
“American exports peaked at six percent in In the 19th century. So it was half of six percent, meaning three percent. Three percent of our economy was due to slave picked cotton.”
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Hughes: Anti-white comments were routine at Columbia, but never heard antisemitism
“Every week, almost every day, you would hear a student make some offhand comment denigrating white people. In four years there, I'm not sure I ever heard a student make a denigrating comment about Jews.”