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The 1619 Project : a new origin story
Published 2024 by One World, New York
ISBN 9780593230596
Bib Id 1461415
Copyright 2021
Edition 2024 One World trade paperback edition.
Description xxxiii, 590 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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nam a22 i 4500
ISBN
9780593230596 paperback $25.00
0593230590
Call #
973 S
Uniform Title
1619 Project (Hannah-Jones)
Title
The 1619 Project : a new origin story
Edition
2024 One World trade paperback edition.
Publication Information
2024 by One World, New York :
Copyright Date
©2021
Description
xxxiii, 590 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country's very origin. The 1619 Project tells this new origin story, placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes index.
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