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The 1619 Project, a new origin story, edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The 1619 Project

bibliography

edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein

a new origin story

"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country's very origin. The 1619 Project tells this new origin story, placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country

Sixteen-Nineteen Project