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1619 is the first time that Africans arrived in the Jamestown colony and eventually chattel slavery of Africans occurs after this. The problem is the idea that 1619 was the beginning of chattel slavery. It is well intentioned and does well to make slavery central to the dynamics of American history, highlights the foundational role of slavery in the American economic system, documents the resiliency of the enslaved, and connects slavery in the past to central American institutions. However, it presents a teleological historical narrative that makes it appear that the historical outcome was inevitable, it imposes our current classificatory system onto the past, and it make slavery seem like it unfolded in a predictable and unchanging manner.

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