The New York Times Magazine - 18.08.2019

August 18, 2019 21 Edward Brooke of Massachusetts took offi ce in 1967.) More than 600 black men served in Southern state legisl ...

The 1619 Project 22 and held white and ‘‘colored’’ days at the country fair, and white busi- nesses regularly denied black peo- ...

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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman/Reuters The 1619 Project 24 dismembered with their body parts displayed in storefronts. This vio- ...

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The 1619 Project 26 undemocratic Constitution that excluded women, Native Ameri- cans and black people, and did not provide the ...

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Credit by Name Surname The 1619 Project 28 Over the course of 350 years, 36,000 slave ships crossed the Atlantic Ocean. I walk o ...

August 18, 2019 29 ⬤ March 5, 1770: Crispus Attucks, a fugitive from slavery who works as dockworker, becomes the first American ...

In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation. By Matthew Desmond Photograph ...

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The 1619 Project 32 A couple of years before he was convicted of securities fraud, Mar- tin Shkreli was the chief executive of a ...

August 18, 2019 33 since the end of slavery, only two. It is not surprising that we can still feel the looming presence of this ...

The 1619 Project 34 of biodiversity exhausted the soil and, to quote the historian Wal- ter Johnson, ‘‘rendered one of the riche ...

August 18, 2019 35 market value of enslaved workers over their life spans. Values gen- erally peaked between the prime ages of 2 ...

The 1619 Project 36 fi ne-tuning of the system, violence lurked. Plantation owners used a combination of incentives and pun- ish ...

August 18, 2019 37 than $6.6 trillion was transferred to fi nancial fi rms. After witnessing the successes and excesses of Wall ...

The 1619 Project 38 passed for money, was the only cheap thing to be had.’’ Planters took on immense amounts of debt to fi nance ...

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The 1619 Project 40 While ‘‘Main Street’’ might be anywhere and everywhere, as the historian Joshua Freeman points out, ‘‘Wall S ...