There is a lot of evidence that a slave rebellion was one of the main reasons for the southern colonies. While I respect Gordon Wood, I tend to disagree with his criticism of non top down historical interpretations. The interaction between the different colonies, women, slaves, natives, British, and property owners is also very important to our history and shouldn’t be ignored or pushed to the side especially when the reason is “because it’s not pretty”. I think the racism always was. The country was built on exploitation of slaves. I didn’t see the racism depicted in the 1619 project as comically evil. I’m guessing you are talking about the “one primary reason some colonists joined the revolution was to keep their slaves” part. That did happen and was part of the reason. More like a push based on rumors of slaves going to British officials pledging to side with them for their freedom even before the Dunmore proclamation. This caused fear throughout the southern colonies giving them that push. There were some compromises made to keep slavery afterwords which lead to the Civil war.

I don’t think anyone pictures them like a cartoon villain, though it doesn’t change what happened and some of the reasons why. I do think the 1619 project was more nuanced than people give it credit for. They are general essay introductions to things people haven’t been taught. Most of it is factual, minus an embellishment that was fixed by the addition of one word. The most historians can debate is the level of influence certain things had. Some say quite a bit and some say little to medium amount. Also we can only discuss part of the project as it also includes fiction and poetry. The main claims are factual and evidence based. I don’t think the capitalism essay goes far enough, but that’s just a personal opinion.

So the 1776 report is not really more accurate than the 1619 project. Out of curiosity have you read the 1776 report?