Martha S. Jones
@marthasjones.bsky.social
Historian | Writer | Lapsed Lawyer | Professor JHU | Director Hard Histories | Author The Trouble of Color, Vanguard, Birthright Citizens | msjonz@jhu.edu
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Glad to see Ezekiel Kweku going deep on birthright at the @nytimes.com. Still, a correction. Emancipation did not bring on the need for a 14th A. Instead, the refusal of lawmakers for decades before to credit FREE Black Americans as citizens demanded that birthright be constitutionalized.
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"You will encounter people who will encourage you to fear the past: those who want to be sure that hard history is forgotten, suppressed, even whitewashed. You will hear that it will harm you, wound you, undermine your ability to be great. Don’t believe them." open.substack.com/pub/hardhist...