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Nikole Hannah-Jones contends in the New York Times’ 1619 Project that there was no significant bi-racial antislavery campaign in this country in the critical period between the Constitution and the Age of Jackson. White people, she said, sat on their hands. They did nothing of substance. “For the most part,” she wrote, “Black Americans fought back alone.” This conversation seeks to unpack this stout and sobering claim—the claim that African Americans had no meaningful white allies in the antislavery before 1840. Was this true?
