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Explain It to Me

Slavery and its legacy

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Jane, Dara, and Matt discuss the 1619 project and its critics Related reading: “The 1619 Project” New York Times Magazine “Henry Clay, Edward Baptist, and the Whipping Machine” by Bradley A. Hansen “Cotton, Slavery, and the New History of Capitalism” by Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode “Capitalism and Slavery” by John J. Clegg, New York University “Slavery and Anglo-American capitalism revisited” by Gavin Wright, Stanford University White paper -------------------------------------- Join the Weeds Facebook group! News comes at you fast. Join us at the end of your day to understand it. Subscribe to Today, Explained Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.5

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0:12.5

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0:18.9

girlfriend, casual date or just someone who truly gets you, it's waiting for you unbumble.

0:25.6

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0:35.7

kitchens with the car to steam cleaner. You'll be done before you know it, with more time

0:40.8

to put your feet up. Find your car to steam cleaner at carature.co.uk or a car to retailer.

0:48.6

TV cops, they're always selling crimes. Even on the shield, the bad corrupt cops are selling

0:54.0

crimes. Just come in every day and be like, hey guys, why don't we sell some crimes?

1:12.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of The Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network. This

1:16.0

is Dara Lind of ProPublica. I'm here with Vox's Madaglacias and Jane Kostin. This week

1:21.0

we are going to be discussing a whole lot of things that if you haven't read, you should

1:26.5

probably log off and read your leisure. I understand that a lot of you are probably listening

1:32.0

to this in a context, but you cannot easily log off and read some things. But we're going

1:36.1

to be talking about what The New York Times is calling the 1619 Project, which is an editorial

1:42.6

initiative that launched with a special edition on Sunday of The New York Times magazine

1:47.8

that commemorates the arrival of the first slave ship in the British colonies of the Americas.

1:54.8

Right. The reason why we make the note that you should read the package first and stop

2:02.1

driving or walking the dog or doing whatever it is that you're doing, then listen to this

2:07.3

podcast is that the responses to this package seem to be very much, there is a response

2:13.0

to the package itself. There is a response to the pieces within the package. Then there is

2:19.1

a response that seems to be based largely on The New York Times doing lists and to a transcript

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