No doubt he’ll center around the Founding Fathers’ ownership of slaves. Probably introject it as “Americas Original Sin”.
I would bet on it.
Indeed, He talked about it briefly on The Meat eater podcast. It's also gonna be 12 hours so who knows. A few excerpts
"We want you to know about King's Mountain and Yorktown and the places where it's fault. It's like a three-part opera, you know, in New England, central States and then South America. But it's also a much more complicated picture. It isn't just 55 white guys in Philadelphia thinking great thoughts. Right? A lot of these guys are slave owners. A lot of them are, are trying to get Indian land. A lot of this is about getting Indian land. And so it's, you're now dealing with slavery, freed slaves, runaway slaves, British are offering freedom. if you belong to a rebel, if you belong to somebody who's loyalist, forget it, you're still a slave. Right? So there's unbelievably complicated dynamics. Women are involved from the very beginning."
"These are not Plains Indians, nomadic people. These are people with cities and towns and farms and orchards having scorched earth policy. You know, Washington was called by many of the, of the Iroquois Confederation tribes, the, the town destroyer. And they referred to the revolution as the whirlwind. It also happened in the Southeast, and it also happened in the Midwest, particularly with George Rogers Clark, who's just, he's out to, he's the Attila of the hun of the story. I mean he's out to just kill as many Indians as he can to destroy as many villages to make that area, which will later become the Northwest territories, you know, suitable for settling."
"So it's a super complicated story, and yet it engages some of the most noble aspirations of humankind, period. So that when someone came up to me and said, our last film that was broadcast was called the US in the Holocaust. I said, do you think after the birth of Christ, the most important event in world history is the Holocaust? I said, no, it's the birth of the United States."
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