Did the Constitution Pave the Way to Emancipation?

Oct 06, 2021 View Original Article
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    -98% Extremely Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    -20% Somewhat Liberal

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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"Relying on the Fifth Amendment, they argued that Northern states could grant due process rights to accused runaways, making it harder for masters to reclaim their self-stolen property."
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28% Conservative
"This theory of the Constitution shaped the development and execution of what Oakes terms the Antislavery Project, a decades-long plan to constrict the expansion of slavery, deprive it of oxygen, and ultimately place it on what Lincoln called a course of ultimate extinction."
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-4% Liberal
"In a 2017 discussion of what he called the new consensus history -- especially the histories of slavery and capitalism that later informed the 1619 Project -- Oakes derided contemporary scholarship for offering only a history and politics of hopelessness."
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-10% Liberal
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Relying on the Fifth Amendment, they argued that Northern states could grant due process rights to accused runaways, making it harder for masters to reclaim their "self-stolen" property.
48% : This theory of the Constitution shaped the development and execution of what Oakes terms the "Antislavery Project," a decades-long plan to constrict the expansion of slavery, deprive it of oxygen, and ultimately place it on what Lincoln called "a course of ultimate extinction."
45% : In a 2017 discussion of what he called the "new consensus history" -- especially the histories of slavery and capitalism that later informed the 1619 Project -- Oakes derided contemporary scholarship for offering only "a history and politics of hopelessness.
39% : The New Deal was irredeemably racist.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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