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NYT “1619 Project” More Pro-American Exceptionalism Than Anti-Slavery

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford

14 Oct 2019

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The New York Times’ “1619 Project” essays on the arrival of African slaves in Jamestown, Virginia “is not a critique of American exceptionalism – it is an attempt to told slavery into American exceptionaism,” said Josh Myers, professor of African American Studies at Howard University. “Africans were not seeking to become Americans; they were seeking to be free,” said Myers.

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