It is the 400th anniversary of when 20 enslaved Africans were sold to British colonists in Virginia. 1619Project reframes history with 1619 as our founding & the consequences of slavery & the contributions of black Americans at our center. WATCH
The Fourth of July in 1776 is regarded by most Americans as the country’s birthday. But what if we were to tell you that the country’s true birth date, the moment that its defining contradictions first came into the world, was in late August 1619?
That was when a ship arrived at Point Comfort in the British colony of Virginia, bearing a cargo of 20 to 30 enslaved Africans. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years and form the basis for almost every aspect of American life.is a major initiative from The New York Times memorializing that event on its 400th anniversary.
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