Slavery in the USA

NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES — THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE — THE 1619 PROJECT — 2021

Anyone who wants to know how the United States was born, as I did in the 2010s for some publications, comes to John Smith and his first successful colony, Jamestown, in 1607 in what was to become Virginia. The name of the colony was in honor of King James 1st who had granted the colonists a ten-year…