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"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more...
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English
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Examines the history of gun laws and restrictions in the United States and the controversies that have surrounded mass shootings and gun violence in the country. Discusses opposing viewpoints on the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and what politicians today on both sides of the aisle have been debating concerning guns.