1619 by James Horn5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() If the tragic legacies of racial slavery are still with us, so too is the possibility of progress in an enlightened, self-governing commonwealth."-Peter S. If at the first the coincidence seemed unremarkable to colonists, its consequences soon proved fateful for Virginia-and ultimately for America. Inspired by a vision of establishing a just commonwealth, the Virginia Company authorized the first meeting of an elected legislature in English America in late July or early August a few weeks later an English privateer sold approximately 20 enslaved Africans to Virginia planters. Master historian James Horn tells these two inextricably linked stories in his powerful new book, 1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy. ![]() "Freedom and slavery in America were born at the same time and the same place, two hundred years ago in Virginia. ![]()
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