The "1619 Project" literature is characteristic of today's neo-racist movement, which reduces the West to slavery and slavery to the West. In this nursery rhyme, everyone born with white skin is wrong, if not satanic.
The Republic of Venice (697-1797 AD) made a specialty of transporting shiploads of white slaves from Northern and Eastern Europe to Constantinople and from the Black Sea to North Africa.
The origins of slavery are white. It is just a timely reminder that slavery is an integral part of human history components and that the practice of slavery is not the prerogative of any particular group. "Slavery", as Paul Louis reminds us, "is one of the few features that were common to all civilisations".
Slavery is not a moral choice, it is a financial one. Large US companies and pension funds rush to invest in China despite its reported use of Uyghurs there as slaves.
Regrettably, there was no movement in the Muslim world comparable to Western abolitionism. The West, led by a fiercely abolitionist British state, was the one stopping and then breaking the millennia-old and perfectly-oiled slavery mechanism of the Arab-Turkish-Muslim world.
In short, there is nothing specifically Western about slavery; but everything specifically Western about abolitionism.
The origins of slavery are white. Slavery is an integral part of human history, and the practice of slavery is not the prerogative of any particular group. The Republic of Venice (697-1797 AD) made a specialty of transporting shiploads of white slaves from Northern and Eastern Europe to Constantinople and from the Black Sea to North Africa. Pictured: "The way in which Christian prisoners are sold as slaves at the Algiers market," an engraving from 1684 by Jan Luyken. (Image source: Amsterdam Historic Museum/Wikimedia Commons)
In August 2019, The New York Times initiated The 1619 Project, consisting of a collection of articles designed to illustrate that slavery was "one primary reason the colonists fought the American Revolution". This project is directed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, a New York Times staff reporter who is not a historian but an avowed "critical race theory" activist. [2]
When American historians denounced the obvious falsehood of this assertion, and its revisionist and negationist nature against proven, documented and source-based historical reality, The New York Times altered the original version of the articles in question to say "some" colonists fought to defend the practice of slavery. The New York Times stated:
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