![]() The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning “1619 Project” issue reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. ![]() This is sometimes referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the source of so much that still defines the United States. ![]() Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. ![]()
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