“In 1785, he led a delegation of abolitionists to Mount Vernon to convince the future first president of the United States to join their movement. But George Washington declined to sign the petition or publicly support the Methodists’ anti-slavery efforts, on the premise that “it would be dangerous to make a frontal attack on a prejudice which is beginning to decrease.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“This is our national truth: America would not be America without the wealth from Black labor, without Black striving, Black ingenuity, Black resistance.”
― The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
― The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
“Slavery persisted, and grew, protected by the argument that it was going away.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“School curricula generally treat slavery as an aberration in a free society, and textbooks largely ignore the way that many prominent men, women, industries, and institutions profited from and protected slavery.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“I am the American heartbreak— The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe— The great mistake That Jamestown made Long ago. —Langston Hughes, “American Heartbreak: 1619”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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