Great. The 1619 Project is absurd on the face of it. There's no way the colonies fought the Revolutionary War to preserve slavery. Preserve it from whom? Great Britain didn't abolish slavery in its territories until 1834, and it didn't abolish the Atlantic slave trade until 1807, the year before the U.S. abolished the trade. Slavery and slave laws in the colonies would have continued just as they were if the colonies had not fought for independence in 1776. Jim Dueholm
Great. The 1619 Project is absurd on the face of it. There's no way the colonies fought the Revolutionary War to preserve slavery. Preserve it from whom? Great Britain didn't abolish slavery in its territories until 1834, and it didn't abolish the Atlantic slave trade until 1807, the year before the U.S. abolished the trade. Slavery and slave laws in the colonies would have continued just as they were if the colonies had not fought for independence in 1776. Jim Dueholm
Good article.
If the Post says it then it isn't so.