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The New York Times / Jake Silverstein / Nov 9, 2021
“This book, which is called ‘The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story,’ arrives amid a prolonged debate over the version of the project we published two years ago. That project made a bold claim, which remains the central idea of the book: that the moment in August 1619 when the first enslaved Africans arrived in the English colonies that would become the United States could, in a sense, be considered the country’s origin.” HT
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