
Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Deglassco ("Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:
So when the 1619 Project arrived—Not from Harvard. Not from Oxford. But from the New York Times—from the mouths of Black folk—it wasn’t an aberration. It was an inheritance.
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Image: An advertisement for the sale of roughly 250 enslaved people trafficked into Boston on the Bante Island ship, ca. 1700. Source: https://eji.org/report/transatlantic-slave-trade/boston/#the-port-of-boston