Stanford Historian on NYT's 1619 Project: ' I think it’s completely nuts'

World Socialist Web Site has an interview with Stanford historian Jack Rakove on the New York Times' 1619 Project:

In a lot of ways the 1619 Project—I think their position on the Dunmore Proclamation and independence being over defending slavery—I think it’s completely nuts. It’s easily falsifiable, including owing to the fact that British emancipation in the West Indies takes another 50 years. Dunmore is trying to govern Virginia from a ship cruising up and down the Chesapeake.

An interview well worth your time.