Re:Stories are bad for your intelligence: How Historians Mak...
by stareatgoats on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @06:15AM
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I read her x-twitter, and it doesn't support the notion that she has set out to deceive - at all. Instead it oozes of someone who is convinced that slaves and peoples of the colonies have got a bad rap (that's true btw) and that her research rectifies that injustice to some extent.
If you read her detractors you will find that absolutely no-one accuses her of "setting out to deceive", what they are saying that her conclusions (while they could be true) are not sufficiently backed up by hard facts. And that she has got some of her facts wrong.
"Setting out to deceive" is a fairly serious accusation to level at a historian, claims that need more proof than pointing to a pinned tweet saying "she still sticks to her story" even though someone on the internet (credibly) found her conclusions to be tenuous.
If you don't think that, then you should read her Twitter, at which is pinned to the top her paper with this introductory text: "This paper details how an innovation some historians have called 1 of the top 10 of the industrial revolution was first developed in the late 18C by 76 Black Jamaicans in a foundry just west of Morant Bay, but the central concern of the paper is much more important.. 1/4"