The 1619 Project
In 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.
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The 1619 Landing — Virginia's First Africans Report & FAQs
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Although the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution end slavery in 1885, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, the struggle for total equality in America is still on going.