The 1619 Project: Large Print Edition category-books each day providing hundreds of

each day providing hundreds of news stories

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The 1619 Project: Large Print Edition category-books each day providing hundreds ofNow available as a large print paperback, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story is a dramatic expansion of the groundbreaking work of journalism, offering 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. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last