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”When I first weighed in upon the New York Times’ 1619 Project, I was struck by its conflicted messaging. Comprising an entire magazine feature and a sizable advertising budget, the newspaper’s initiative conveyed a serious attempt to engage the public in an intellectual exchange about the history of slavery in the United States and its lingering harms to our social fabric. It also seemed to avoid the superficiality of many public history initiatives, which all too often reduce over 400 complex years of slavery’s history and legacy to sweeping generalizations. Instead, the Times promised detailed thematic explorations of topics ranging from the first slave ship’s arrival in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 to the politics of race in the present day.

At the same time, however, certain 1619 Project essayists infused this worthy line of inquiry with a heavy stream of ideological advocacy. Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones announced this political intention openly, pairing progressive activism with the initiative’s stated educational purposes.

In assembling these essays, I make no claim of resolving what continues to be a vibrant and ongoing discussion. Neither should my work be viewed as the final arbiter of historical accuracy, though I do evaluate a number of factual and interpretive claims made by the project’s authors. Rather, the aim is to provide an accessible resource for readers wishing to navigate the scholarly disputes, offering my own interpretive take on claims pertaining to areas of history in which I have worked." -- Phil Magness

Phillip W. Magness is an economic historian specializing in the 19th century United States. He is the author of numerous works on the political and economic dimensions of slavery, the history of taxation, and the history of economic thought.

The American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was founded in 1933 as the first independent voice for sound economics in the United States. Today it publishes ongoing research, hosts educational programs, publishes books, sponsors interns and scholars, and is home to the world-renowned Bastiat Society and the highly respected Sound Money Project. The American Institute for Economic Research is a 501c3 public charity.

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Gene Rhea Tucker

Good ammunition to fight back against the perversion that is the 1619 Project

Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2020

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4.5 out of 5 stars.

Phillip W. Magness of the conservative leaning American Institute for Economic Research has written several articles critiquing the much vaunted, and in reality much idiotic, 1619 Project by the <i>New York Times</i>. Here he collects those writings with a few more. Because some of these essays were first published in other venues, there is much overlap and repetition. Also, the original publications probably did not have footnotes, so footnotes seem to have been added. The footnotes are sloppily and inadequately done, and the citation style for economics is slipshod compared to the Chicago/Turabian standard in history. So, there is that. An editor could have been used, besides the odd footnotes, there were several minor errors in writing, spelling, punctuation, etc.

But, all said, these essays do mostly attack the 1619 Project on proper historical, historiographical, and economic grounds. The main gist is threefold, that the "New Historians of Capitalism" or NHC, those who say that modern capitalism was grounded, founded, and based on chattel slavery of African Americans: (1) do not properly define capitalism, because slavery is NOT capitalism, and they ignore slaveowners who detested free market capitalism; (2) some of the NHC writers use completely faulty economic and statistical evidence to make incorrect points about historical slavery and modern capitalism; and (3) the NHC historians ignore whole swathes of historiography on the economics of slavery, willfully ignorantly, (even to the point of denigrating Fogel and Engerman as "old white guys" who you needn't consider).

I disagree with the author's position on Lincoln and colonization. I think by the Spring of 1865 Lincoln was switching to giving black Americans citizenship and the men voting rights. He can both encourage colonization AND equality for the ones who don't want colonization. Anyway...

There are many good snippets of information here and there. It is good ammunition to fight back against the perversion that is the 1619 Project. Slavery was bad, and an important part of American history, but slavery is not what America is about. This book helps.

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James A. Farren

Excellent explanation of a very slanted program!

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2020

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I would have give the publication five stars but for two issues:

1. The author repeated several points several times that had already been well established. Apparently the chapters were originally independent, self standing, articles. Of necessity, the original articles would review arguments that were made earlier. Still, the repetition was distracting.

2. The chapter titled “A Comment on the ‘New’ History of American Capitalism” was extremely esoteric & difficult to follow. I understand the work is “scholarly” but this chapter was a bit much.

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Pez

The 1619 Project's False History Exposed

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2020

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Magness provides extensive references, research, and names for this critique. His profession is researching 19th century economics. He is fair here. He gives credit to the 1619 authors where valid points of arguments exists. But he deconstructs and disassembles the parts of the 1619 Project where mistakes and "inaccuracies" (a.k.a. not truth) exists using many references and respected names in the field of economic history.

Conclusion: The 1619 Project is a machination against capitalism. It's hard to know why there are those that put this much effort and thought to dismantle the modern liberal ideals that have allowed all peoples the opportunities to prosper (not perfect ideas but the best principles we've had thus far to lift society up), even the authors of 1619 Project benefit from these reasonable ideas. Through the prism of postmodern thoughts, one doesn't need Truth of the past or present, and you end with false conclusions such as the 1619 Project.

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Debunking the shody scholarship that is the New History of Capitalism

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2020

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The New York times is complicit in publishing this shoddy pseudoacademic distortion called the 1619 project. Well the 1619 project raises some serious issues it falls flat in its opinionated propaganda. The essays in this critique help to provide a more rational and objective assessment of these key issues

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Michael F.

Scholarly and carefully balanced critique

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2020

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This was not an easy read, but it was worth the effort. Magness spent a lot of time in relatively arcane discussions of economics and history, but his discussion was useful to understand the flaws in the 1619 project. He was careful to balance his criticisms with appreciation of the aspect that the 1619 journalists got right. Magness left me with a much better understanding, not only of the project, but of the NHC agenda and problems, as well. Well worth reading for a person seeking understanding.

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liz

Shows the real facts

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2020

Shows the real facts, not re-writing history. Very informative information from an excellent author and historian.

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