Abstract
How America Became an Economic Powerhouse on the Backs of African-American Slaves and Native Americans
Highlights
The paper starts with ‘The 1619 Project’ whose objective is to place the consequences of slavery--and the contributions of black Americans--at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a nation
In 1965, thanks to the Civil Rights movement, the Voting Rights Act was passed to overcome barriers created by Jim Crow laws to the legal rights of African Americans under the 15th Amendment
This is a long essay, so we have divided in six sections as follow: Section I—From 1619 to American Independence Section II—History of Slavery and Racist Ideas Section III—The Civil War to the Voting Rights Act, 1965 Section IV— The Empire of Cotton Section V—The Sugar Plantations of Louisiana Section VI—This Half has Not been Told Section I starts with ‘The 1619 Project,’ whose objective is to recognize the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the center of the story we tell ourselves who we are as a nation
Summary
This is a long essay, so we have divided in six sections as follow: Section I—From 1619 to American Independence Section II—History of Slavery and Racist Ideas Section III—The Civil War to the Voting Rights Act, 1965 Section IV— The Empire of Cotton Section V—The Sugar Plantations of Louisiana Section VI—This Half has Not been Told Section I starts with ‘The 1619 Project,’ whose objective is to recognize the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the center of the story we tell ourselves who we are as a nation. The South believed that the U.S was stripping them of their birthright: as slaveholders, as Americans, as whites, as men To satisfy their voracious greed for new territory--for which they would need more slaves—the Southern planters began a rearguard action for reopening the slave trade that the Congress had abolished in 1807. ‘The 619 Project’ and Slavery in America According to Jake Silverstein (2019), editor-in-chief of The New York Times Magazine, ‘The 1619 Project’ is the brain-child of Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, whose article dated Aug. 14, 2019 was the first in the series It was exactly four hundred years ago when Jamestown colonists in the British colony of Virginia bought 20-30 enslaved Africans from English pirates.
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