I also read the 1619 Project. Mostly liberal propaganda. Each chapter was written by a different author about some aspect of race in American history. Some chapters were very informative, like one on the Indian Removal Act and history of minstrel shows. One of the most telling things about the book as a whole as the authors' intentional omission of the democrat party's culpability for nearly every racist aspect of American history. You can hardly find the democrat party mentioned in a negative way in the book. And they refer to many great American blacks, like Frederick Douglass and Zora Neale Hurston, etc., without mentioning that they were Republican who saw the Democrats as the biggest threat to black progress. (I didn't buy it, of course. I checked it out at the library.)
Read the complete Robinson Crusoe. I read one edited for teenagers when I was a kid. The complete one was quite eye-opening. It was really quite religious and informative about slavery. Written in 1719.