We in English-speaking America sometimes think of them as the first slaves in Jamestown in 1619. But there had been many Africans in North America before that, traveling with the Spanish explorers ...

there is no evidence of a single colonist expressing support for independence in order to protect slavery. The 1619 Project’s claims were based not on historical sources but on imputation and ...

It proliferated for millennia before slaves are first known to have been sold in Virginia, in 1619. It persisted long after it was abolished in the United States in 1865. It was practiced by ...

Reparations. For what? For whom? What does this word mean? At its basic level, Reparations means to make someone whole for ...

Sometimes when reading The Union one encounters a statement that seems to explain much of the political mire in which we find ourselves. One such appeared in Manny Montes’ response ...

The 1619 Project seeks to reframe the history of the USA by marking the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived on Virginia soil as the nation's foundational date. It aims to place the ...

“To commemorate the anniversary of the 1619 landing, we are highlighting ... The 13th Amendment ended slavery in the U.S., but the pursuit of equality and civil rights for all endures, Smith ...