The New York Times Magazine’s ‘1619 Project’ Is Mostly Progressive Propaganda

A group of men and women, presumably slaves, grind sugar with the help of mules and a simple machine on a farm, Georgia, mid 19th Century. A child sits atop on the fulcrum of the machine. L.J. Schira/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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Recently, The New York Times Magazine unveiled the “1619 Project,” a series of stories, interviews, and essays that commemorate the 400th anniversary of when slavery began in the country that would become the United States.