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The 1619 Project is named after the tragic year slaves from Africa first arrived in Virginia, and its premise is that America’s 18th-century founders fought a revolution “to ensure that slavery would continue,” that slavery was part of “the brutality of American capitalism … low-road capitalism … winner-take-all capitalism … racist capitalism.”  

The 1619 Project is named after the tragic year slaves from Africa first arrived in Virginia, and its premise is that America’s 18th-century founders fought a revolution “to ensure that slavery would continue,” that slavery was part of “the brutality of American capitalism … low-road capitalism … winner-take-all capitalism … racist capitalism.”  

However, among other scholarly rebukes,  Princeton historian Allen Guelzo criticizes The 1619 Project, finding that it  views,

However, among other scholarly rebukes,  Princeton historian Allen Guelzo criticizes the misrepresentative 1619 Project, finding that it  presents ,

"slavery not as a blemish that the Founders grudgingly tolerated with the understanding that it must soon evaporate, but as the prize that the Constitution went out of its way to secure and protect. The Times presents slavery not as a regrettable chapter in the distant past, but as the living, breathing pattern upon which all American social life is based, world without end.”  "The 1619 Project  is not history: it is polemic, born in the imaginations of those whose primary target is capitalism itself and who hope to tarnish capitalism by associating it with slavery." <ref>Marvin Olasky (March 01, 2020) [https://townhall.com/columnists/marvinolasky/2020/03/01/misplaced-blame-n2561964 Misplaced Blame: Using 1619 For Propaganda in 2020] Townhall.com. Retrieved March 05, 2020</ref>

"slavery not as a blemish that the Founders grudgingly tolerated with the understanding that it must soon evaporate, but as the prize that the Constitution went out of its way to secure and protect. The Times presents slavery not as a regrettable chapter in the distant past, but as the living, breathing pattern upon which all American social life is based, world without end.”  "The 1619 Project  is not history: it is polemic, born in the imaginations of those whose primary target is capitalism itself and who hope to tarnish capitalism by associating it with slavery." <ref>Marvin Olasky (March 01, 2020) [https://townhall.com/columnists/marvinolasky/2020/03/01/misplaced-blame-n2561964 Misplaced Blame: Using 1619 For Propaganda in 2020] Townhall.com. Retrieved March 05, 2020</ref>