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America Can’t Let Go of George Washington’s Slave-Holding History
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During the summer of 2020, as protestors rallied against racial injustice, at least two dozen monuments of Confederate soldiers and slave owners were “torched, occupied, or removed.” In Portland, protestors toppled a George Washington statue on the lawn outside the German American Society, erected to commemorate the sesquicentennial. Six years later, and the Trump administration […]
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Uses phrases like 'complex role slavery plays' and 'complicated legacy' that frame slavery as essential to Washington's storySources and promotes a book that challenges traditional hero worship of WashingtonFrames resistance to teaching slavery history as people being 'furious about their heroes being debunked' rather than legitimate educational concernsUses loaded terms like 'prolific enslaver' and emphasizes Washington's evasion of abolition lawsContextual framingComparative languageStory angle selectionloaded languageframing of issuesattribution patternsLoaded language such as 'prolific enslaver' and descriptions of monument removals that evoke progressive activismSource selection favoring a historian who advocates for embracing historical complexity in a critical light, without prominent counter-perspectives
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