The basic thesis of Hannah-Jones’ 1619 Project is wrong from the beginning. It is just not historically factual and cannot be justified by the events of history. The author claims that the colonists sought independence from Great Britain because the colonists “wanted to protect the institution of slavery”. Wrong.
The author claims that Great Britain was about to outlaw slavery in the colonies, so the colonist got ahead of the curve, and claimed independence so they could keep slavery in the Americas. Just plain wrong.
The 1619 Project is much more of a political treatise than a historical factual thesis. It is “blame America first” politics not factual U.S history.
The 1619project is nothing but lies
and who owns The New York Times Magazine? And who owned all of the slave trading and transport companies?
Oh, better not mention that or we’ll be considered to be anti-something.
I sure wish them old timers has cut their own tobacco. Sure would have saved us a lot of troubles.
It matters
What I read is we should have picked our own cotton and other crops.
Neither. The real founding of American Exceptionalism was 1620 with the Pilgrims. They were the first in human history to START a society with the four pillars of American Exceptionalism
*A Christian/mostly Protestant religious foundation (bottom-up congregational structure)
*Common law (bottom-up governance)
*Private Property with written titles & deeds (came within a year)
*a free market system (came in 1630)
Note: no slavery.