1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy

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An unusual year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand
Along the banks of the James River, Virginia, right through an oppressively hot spell in the course of summer 1619, two events occurred within A couple of weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course of history. In the newly built church at Jamestown, the General Assembly–the first gathering of a representative governing body in The us–came together. A couple of weeks later, a battered privateer entered the Chesapeake Bay carrying the first African slaves to land on mainland English The us.
In 1619, historian James Horn sheds new light on the year that gave birth to the great paradox of our nation: slavery in the course of freedom. This portentous year marked both the origin of a very powerful political development in American history, the upward push of democracy, and the emergence of what would in time transform one of the vital nation’s greatest challenges: the corrosive legacy of racial inequality that has afflicted The us since its beginning.
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