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Eric Beckman

Glad for the Age of Revolutions year end review. I missed this in August, but good to read the day after Haitian Independence Day.

Always useful as a to see that multiple views of the people *of their time*.A new-to-me example of the Revolution influencing US political discourse.

ageofrevolutions.com/2022/08/2

Age of Revolutions“A Positive Evil”: The Haitian Revolution and Abolition in the 1834 Tennessee State Constitutional ConventionBy Age of Revolutions

@ERBeckman
I’m really weirded out by the author’s insistence on capitalizing ‘white’ – even going to the extent of altering quotations to make it seem like the people he’s quoting did that.

@tkinias hmm...I didn't notice that with the quotations and read through it as denoting "white" as a constructed political identity. The latter, of course, does not require capitalization.

@tkinias my reading may be too charitable

@ERBeckman
I know a few Black activists do capitalize ‘White’ for reasons that I don’t quite grasp, but generally it reads to me like a white-supremacist thing (or a clumsy attempt at parallelism with ‘Black’).

It jumped out at me as seeming quite anachronistic in 19C use, and so I checked one of the quotations...