
Reframing America's origin story, "The 1619 Project" explores slavery's enduring legacy through powerful essays that sparked nationwide curriculum debates. What if our democracy's true birthdate isn't 1776? The book that made historians, educators, and politicians rethink everything they thought they knew about American history.
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In August 1619, a ship called the White Lion arrived at Point Comfort, Virginia, carrying "twenty and odd" Africans who would become the first enslaved people in what would become the United States. This moment didn't make headlines. No one rang bells or marked it in their calendars. Yet this arrival set in motion a contradiction so profound it still fractures American society today: a nation proclaiming liberty for all was being built on the systematic exploitation of millions. What makes this story so urgent isn't just what happened four centuries ago-it's how those events shaped everything from your neighborhood's ZIP code to who sits in Congress, from your family's wealth to whether a traffic stop feels routine or terrifying. The 1619 Project forces us to reckon with a simple but uncomfortable truth: you cannot understand America without understanding slavery's central role in creating it. Growing up, Nikole Hannah-Jones couldn't understand why her father-born to sharecroppers in Jim Crow Mississippi, denied opportunities despite military service-proudly flew an American flag outside their modest Iowa home. How could someone so mistreated love this country? Years later, she grasped a profound irony: Black Americans have been democracy's truest believers, the people who fought hardest to make America live up to words it never intended for them.
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