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" ... A descendant of Charleston slaveholders, Edward Ball uses his family’s ancestral records to reach out to the descendants of those enslaved people. Ball also uses historical documents, oral histories and personal experience to paint a picture of his research journey, the time of the plantations and how he shared his findings. ... "
" ... And what if it was a mistake from the start? The Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the creation of the United States of America—what if all this was a terrible idea, and what if the injustices and madness of American life since then have occurred not in spite of the virtues of the Founding Fathers but because of them? The Revolution, this argument might run, was a needless and brutal bit of slaveholders’ panic mixed with Enlightenment argle-bargle, producing a country that was always marked for violence and disruption and demagogy. ... "
" ... Roberts’ eyes would further be opened in researching this project by the discovery that her family’s ancestry included slaveholders. Coincidentally, among her husband’s family tree is Levi Coffin, an early leader on the Underground Railroad. ... "
" ... Saez and Zucman had no business citing Einhorn’s book in support of their claims, claims declining to specify the state’s slave tax and concerning “slaveholders” who “embraced the supreme primacy of private property.” ... "
" ... This distorted view of the Texas Revolution is all the rage among ideologues who deem the Texas Revolution, as well as the American Revolution, as enterprises composed of white slaveholders, run by white slaveholders, and conducted for white slaveholders, whose animus toward Mexico owed to the fact that Mexico had outlawed slavery. But the panel’s recommended addition of “diverse” defenders gives the lie to this account. ... "