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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 20 to 30 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 The 1619 Project argues it is more than that: it is the country's very origin. The 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. Orchestrated by the editors of The New York Times Magazine, led by MacArthur ''genius'' and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, this collection of essays and historical vignettes includes some of the most outstanding journalists, thinkers and scholars of American history and culture — including Linda Villarosa, Jamelle Bouie, Jeneen Interlandi, Matthew Desmond, Wesley Morris and Bryan Stevenson. Together, their work shows how the tendrils of 1619 — of slavery and resistance to slavery — reach into every part of our contemporary culture, from voting, housing and healthcare, to the way we sing and dance, the way we tell stories and the way we worship. Interstitial works of flash fiction and poetry bring the history to life through the imaginative interpretations of some of our greatest writers.
- 6.42'' W x 9.43'' H x 1.47'' D
- Created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Publisher: Penguin Random House
- 624 pages
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