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Book SynopsisA dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.
In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa.
Trade ReviewA wide-ranging, landmark summary of the Black experience in America: searing, rich in unfamiliar detail, exploring every aspect of slavery and its continuing legacy . . . Again and again, The 1619 Project brings the past to life in fresh ways. . . . Multifaceted and often brilliant * The New York Times Book Review *
A remarkable reframing of American history in which slavery and the Black experience are at the heart of the narrative * The Guardian *
Visionary... imaginative, all-encompassing... the sheer breadth of this book is refreshing and illuminating, challenging each and every reader to confront America's past, present and future * BookPage (starred) *
[A] groundbreaking compendium... bracing and urgent... This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling * Esquire, “Best Books of Fall 2021” *
Readers will discover something new and redefining on every page ... This visionary, meticulously produced, profound, and bedrock-shifting testament belongs in every library and on every reading list ... [an] invaluable and galvanizing history ... revelatory * Booklist (starred) *
This invaluable book sets itself apart by reframing readers' understanding of U.S. history, past and present * Library Journal (starred) *
A sweeping study of the "unparalleled impact" of African slavery on American society... The result is a bracing and vital reconsideration of American history * Publishers Weekly (starred) *
A much-needed book that stakes a solid place in a battlefield of ideas over America's past and present * Kirkus Reviews (starred) *
Restores people erased from the national narrative, offering a motivating, if sobering, origin story we need to understand if we are ever going to truly achieve 'liberty and justice for all' * Women’s Review of Books *
The ambitious project that got Americans rethinking our racial history... expanded into a book incorporating essays from pretty much everyone you want to hear from about the country's great topic and great shame * Los Angeles Times *
The groundbreaking project from The New York Times, which created a new origin story for America based on the very beginnings of American slavery, is expanded into a very large, very powerful full-length book * Entertainment Weekly *
Pleasingly symmetrical... [a] mosaic of a book, which achieves the impossible on so many levels -- moving from argument to fiction to argument, from theme to theme, and backward and forward in time, so smoothly * Slate *
