WebThe 1619 Project is a long-form journalism endeavor developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, writers from The New York Times, and The New York Times Magazine which "aims to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of the United States' national narrative."

WebFeb 17, 2021 · That is indeed the lesson of 1619, a year that few people understood as significant in American and African-American history until nearly two years ago. When the New York Timespublished the...

WebAug 14, 2019 · The 1619 Podcast. An audio series from The Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.

Web1619: The Year That Shaped America. Four hundred years ago this year, two momentous events happened in Britain’s fledgling colony in Virginia: the New World’s first democratic assembly convened, and an English privateer brought kidnapped Africans to sell as slaves. Such were the conflicted origins of modern America.

WebAug 20, 2019 · At the very least, 1619 represented a landmark in the long history of slavery in European colonies, and the beginning stages of what would become the institution of slavery in America.

Web1619 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1619th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 619th year of the 2nd millennium, the 19th year of the 17th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1610s decade. As of the start of 1619, the Gregorian …

WebSep 13, 2017 · The Misguided Focus on 1619 as the Beginning of Slavery in the U.S. Damages Our Understanding of American History The year the first enslaved Africans were brought to Jamestown is drilled into...

WebAug 13, 2019 · On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of Virginia and are then bought by English colonists. The arrival of the enslaved Africans in...

WebDec 23, 2019 · The New York Times’ 1619 Project entered a new phase of historical assessment when the paper published a scathing criticism by five well-known historians of the American Revolution and Civil War eras. The group included previous critics James McPherson, Gordon Wood, Victoria Bynum, and James Oakes, along with a new …

WebDec 24, 2019 · A major theme of the 1619 Project is that the progress that has been made has been fragile and reversible—and has been achieved in spite of the nation’s true founding principles, which are not...