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Sunday, April 5, 2026
Slavery and the Constitution: The Compromises
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■ HISTORY • 400since1619.com The United States Constitution, ratified in 1788, contains three provisions that directly concerned enslaved pe...
Saturday, April 4, 2026
What the First Africans Found
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■ WITNESS • 400since1619.com The “20 and odd” Africans who arrived at Point Comfort in 1619 were not the first Africans in the territory tha...
Friday, April 3, 2026
The Middle Passage as Architecture
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■ HISTORY • 400since1619.com The Middle Passage was approximately 6,000 miles. The crossing took between six and eight weeks, sometimes long...
Thursday, April 2, 2026
1619: The Year the Counting Begins
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■ MONUMENT • 400since1619.com The year 1619 does not appear in most American founding narratives. The story that gets told begins in 1776, o...
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