Michael Wright

“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.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

“Sovereignty soldiers, Black refugees, self-abolitionists, fighting through America’s history, marooned in a land they made their own, acre after acre, plot after plot, war after war, life after life.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

“James Baldwin famously said, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed unless it is faced.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

“We cannot make up for all the lives lost and dreams snatched, for all the suffering endured. But we can atone for it. We can acknowledge the crime. And we can do something to try to set things right, to ease the hardship and hurt of so many of our fellow Americans.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: Born on the Water