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This Day in History
Aug. 20, 1619: Africans in Virginia www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/first-africans-virginia/ |
The Evolution of Slavery in Virginia, 1619 to 1661 As you will see below, historians agree that the first twenty Africans landed in Virginia in 1619. What is in dispute is their exact status. Were they enslaved people from the beginning of their arrival or did they have some other status? Historian Malik Simba explores that question here and in the process introduces the legal concept of “customary” slavery. www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/perspectives-african-american-history/the-evolution-of-slavery-in-virginia-1619-to-1661/ |
The 1619 Project : In August of 1619, a ship appeared on this horizon, near point comfort, a coastal port in the English colony of Virginia. It carried more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold to the colonists. No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the years of slavery that followed. On the 400th anniversary of this fateful moment, it is finally time to tell our story truthfully.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html The 1619 Project: Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine (Book) A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present 1619books.com/ Corrective History of The 1619 Project "I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me." The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous." www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-project-new-york-times-mistake-122248 Debating the 1619 Project If high school history courses are meant to introduce students to the paradoxes and debates of American history, then they should study the 1619 Project. https://docserver-ingentaconnect-com.udel.idm.oclc.org/deliver/connect/ncss/00377724/v86n1/s3.pdf?expires=1658867842&id=0000&titleid=72010569&checksum=E99F97E31F91066C3C2F96454B88AD9B&host=https://www-ingentaconnect-com.udel.idm.oclc.org |