For most people, Project 1619 is controversial because of Nikole
Hannah-Jones dissed Abe Lincoln, having the temerity to write that
Lincoln regarded free black people as a “troublesome presence”
incompatible with a democracy intended only for white people.
None of the other articles raised Sean Wilentz’s dander as much of this
but there was another controversy that probably passed beneath the radar
of the average NY Times reader, namely the project’s support for the New
History of Capitalism (NHC) spearheaded by Sven Beckert, Edward Baptist
and Walter Johnson. One of articles assembled under the Project, written
by Matthew Desmond, was titled “In order to understand the brutality of
American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation
<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/slavery-capitalism.html>”.
It cited Sven Beckert and fellow NHC’er Seth Rockman: “American slavery
is necessarily imprinted on the DNA of American capitalism” and defended
the proposition that slavery was essential to the birth of American
capitalism. Clearly, this argument was not one that traditional
historians, even those on the left, would accept.
full:
https://louisproyect.org/2021/03/01/the-new-history-of-capitalism-its-detractors-and-the-american-indian/
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