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Howard Zinn's history of slavery and slave revolts in the United States from 1619 up until 1741.
Teachers use the “1619 Project” in K-12 classrooms, turning children against their country. Despite false claims of the Times, North American slavery did not begin with colonizers.
It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia peninsula—and changed history ...
African slaves had been in Florida 54 years before they arrived in Jamestown, Virginia. One historian says the 1619 narrative 'robs black history.' ...
The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.
The first British ship carrying enslaved Africans landed in Virginia in 1619. The Tucker family believes they can trace their ancestry back to that ship — and are fighting to preserve their legacy.
The truth is Spaniards settled in St. Augustine with enslaved blacks more than half a century before any arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 aboard a ship captured by English pirates.
Held as captives first on a Portuguese slave ship and then an English privateer, they had endured a grueling journey across the Atlantic Ocean during the summer of 1619.
Stolen from Africa, enslaved people first arrived in colonial Virginia in 1619 Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to ...
John Lewis, Karen Bass, Nancy Pelosi remember 1619 anniversary, cost of slavery during Capitol ceremony ...
A: The first people who come to Jamestown from Africa in a sense come as slaves. We're not sure whether they had been captured off a slave ship in the Caribbean or whether they'd been transported ...
In 1619, Africans stolen from the Motherland arrived in the Virginia Colony. Their horrific journey set in motion centuries of American slavery.
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