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Scott Hancock has been challenging Confederate sympathizers for five years. But in 2020, he said something changed.
“It was the first time I wondered if I could actually get hurt,” said Hancock, an associate professor of history and Africana Studies at Gettysburg College.
Hancock, who is Black, had made a practice of going to the Civil War-era battlefields near the college once or twice a year when he knew there would be an event to glorify the Confederacy. He and family or friends would show up with signs situating Confederate leaders in “a better, historically grounded reality,” and each time a few people would engage on the role of slavery in the war.
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New York Times Magazine published its “1619 Project” in August 2019 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the landing of the first Africans in the English colony of Virginia. The project is a collection of essays and artwork that argue that the legacy of American slavery can be seen today in areas as disparate as traffic patterns in Atlanta, sugar consumption, health care, incarceration, the racial wealth gap, American capitalism, and reactionary politics.
The curator of the entire project is Nikole Hannah-Jones, a staff writer and investigative reporter for the
New York Times Magazine and author of the lead essay for the 1619 Project. Her essay garnered a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2020 (along with many other awards), and she is the previous recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Peabody Award, George Polk Award, and other awards for journalism.
David Azerrad studies conservatism, progressivism, identity politics, libertarianism and the American Founding.
One hundred and fifty years ago this month, the 13th Amendment officially was ratified, and with it, slavery finally was abolished in America. The New York World hailed it as “one of the most important reforms ever accomplished by voluntary human agency.”
The newspaper said the amendment “takes out of politics, and consigns to history, an institution incongruous to our political system, inconsistent with justice and repugnant to the humane sentiments fostered by Christian civilization.”
With the passage of the 13th Amendment which states that “[n]either slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction” the central contradiction at the heart of the Founding was resolved.