All the writers who keep repeating as fact that the line in my #1619Project essay about slavery and the American Revolution is an error, are going to be really, really surprised when they see all the evidence and citations backing it up in the book when it published Nov. 16. 
I've repeatedly listed the evidence, and the historians and historical texts backing up this assertion. The NYT issued a response of its own. I've posted essays and Twitter threads by other historians backing this assertion. Folks remain impervious to this, and that says a lot.
*when the book publishES Nov. 16.
Trust & believe: I did not just sit down one day & decide to make up something about slavery as one of the motivations for Americans to join the revolution & then print it in the New York Times. One can say there are disagreements, but one cannot study this and call it an error.
I will say that reading so many books on the American Revolution, challenging the mythology that I'd learned, digging into the complexities, the divergent identities, politics, and motivations of the 13 colonies has been so fun and interesting. This part of my job I just love.
This nation has been much, much more protective of its mythology around our founding than even of the Civil War. The Lost Cause has nothing on the whitewashing of the narrative of our founding and our founders, and people across the political spectrum fight hard to protect it.
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