It’s difficult to admit that many of the Founding Fathers ran forced labor camps, and used violence and fear to maintain order & profits. Yes, some of this history is hard to hear. The 1619 Project shows there is a much richer story to be told.
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In social studies, we talked about slavery, the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement - which was the full extent of what we learned about the impact of Black Americans in our country. #1: The Black story of America needs to be told - I was raised in the northeast with a public school education. I think everyone in the US should read this book, and here are my reason why: And finally, I ordered this book and read it on arrival. Next I decided it was time to find out what all this commotion was all about, so I read the collection of essays that made up the original 1619 Project. These included a long list of professors and historians, some of which I have read and respected (e.g. I started by reading the criticisms of the many people who were negative about it. I came to the 1619 Project in a backwards way. While I have never shied away from the darker stories in American history, I have always felt pride at the history of this nation. I also have a deep love of history, especially that of the United States. I am a white male, raised in rural Central New York by conservative middle class parents, who was a registered member of the Republican Party until 2016. I'm going to do something you normally don't do when writing a review: state my affiliations & biases up front. It reveals long-glossed-over truths around our nation’s founding and construction-and the way that the legacy of slavery did not end with emancipation, but continues to shape contemporary American life. This is a book that speaks directly to our current moment, contextualizing the systems of race and caste within which we operate today. The essays show how the inheritance of 1619 reaches into every part of contemporary American society, from politics, music, diet, traffic, and citizenship to capitalism, religion, and our democracy itself. This new book substantially expands on that work, weaving together eighteen essays that explore the legacy of slavery in present-day America with thirty-six poems and works of fiction that illuminate key moments of oppression, struggle, and resistance. 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. 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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