Nikole Hannah-Jones’s 2019 work altered how Americans talk about slavery. Now, an Oprah Winfrey–produced television adaption is continuing the conversation.
It started with a simple fact: “The first group of enslaved Africans were brought here over 400 years ago,” Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Nikole Hannah-Jones can be overheard saying in the trailer for Hulu’s documentary adaptation ofreleased an ambitious and expansive project including a series of essays and poems that meditated on the year 1619, not only as the beginning of chattel slavery in the country that would eventually be known as the United States of America, but as the year, Jones and...
[Originally], I just hoped people would read it. I had no idea how it would go out into the world, but I knew it was a project. It was published around the 400th anniversary of the first Africans being sold into the Colony of Virginia.
Right. I always put the critique from historians of the project into two buckets. There's legitimate critique, and then there's critique of people who just think we focus too much on slavery and centered Black people too much. For the legitimate critique, we responded. And if anyone looks at the original project versus the book expansion, you'll see that we answered that critique and that we revised in reference to that critique.
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