1619 Project: A New Origin Story

Title: 1619 Project: A New Origin Story Author: Hannah-Jones, Nikole ISBN: 9780593230572 Publisher: One World Published: 2021 Binding: Regular Hardback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher History 1344149 Publisher Description: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 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.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Esquire, Marie Claire, Kirkus Reviews, BooklistIn late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American 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 source of so much that still defines