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[[File:800px-NewYorkTimes.svg.png|right|200px|thumb|The New York Times]]

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'''The 1619 Project''' is a collection of [[revisionist history]] developed by ''[[The New York Times]]'' to "reframe"<ref>[https://www.si.edu/events/1619 The 1619 Project: A Symposium On Reframing History], [[Smithsonian Institute]]</ref> [[American history]] exclusively around slavery and racism.  The project has received significant praise from some politicians, activists, and journalists, but consistent criticism from historians.  

'''The 1619 Project''' is a controversial collection of [[revisionist history]] developed by ''[[The New York Times]]'' to "reframe"<ref>[https://www.si.edu/events/1619 The 1619 Project: A Symposium On Reframing History], [[Smithsonian Institute]]</ref> [[American history]] exclusively around slavery and racism.  The project has received significant praise from some politicians, activists, and journalists, but consistent criticism from historians.  

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.”