The 1619 Project: Large Print Edition Edition:Large Print A train bound for Edinburgh

A train bound for Edinburgh

Michael Kimmelman of The Times wrote that “emptiness proliferates like the virus

"That stopped tackling and slugging

“I didn’t spend all my time peering at them

"The cold fact is that the United Nations victory for which we are all striving may not be ours if the men and materials needed for it are forced to lie idle in this country until there are enough ships to move them to the scattered points of the great Allied battlefront

The 1619 Project: Large Print Edition Edition:Large Print A train bound for EdinburghNow available as a large print paperback, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story is a dramatic expansion of the groundbreaking work of journalism, offering a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last