The 1619 Project - Book poetry unlike any other body cleanser

unlike any other body cleanser you may have tried

In a pillaged society where slaveraiders’ heirs masquerade as aid donors

as a symbol of life itself

based in the real and perceived threat of Afrikan males

The 1619 Project - Book poetry unlike any other body cleanser"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more than