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OFFSITE COMMUNITY EVENT: What Actually Happened in 1619
Join Professors Elise Mitchell (Princeton), Kevin Dawson (UC Merced), and Greg O'Malley (UC Santa Cruz) in discussion. This event will take place on campus at the Music Center Recital Hall.
The New York Times’s The 1619 Project sparked controversy and conversation across the United States about the history and legacies of slavery. The project drew its name from a date, 1619, connected to the origins of American slavery, and its publication coincided with the four-hundredth anniversary of that event.
But what actually happened in 1619? The essays collected in The 1619 Project and the important public conversations that followed only touch on the events of that year, or even on the slave trade more generally. The 1619 Project focuses crucial attention on “arguing that slavery and its legacy have profoundly shaped modern American life,” with essays on slavery’s long-term impacts on American democracy, capitalism, incarceration, and even modern transportation.
Exploring those modern legacies is absolutely worthwhile—even crucial. But many people are left with only hazy notions of why 1619 was a key turning point.
This public event brings three historians of slavery together—one focused on the importance of slavery to colonial empires, one focused on captive experiences and health in the slave trade, and one focused on the introduction of African maritime culture (and surfing!) into the Americas—to wrestle with the question: What actually happened in 1619?
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Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/2202406-0
