The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

by Nikole Hannah-Jones

“nullification”: the theory that any state subject to federal law was entitled to invalidate it.

If Congress had the authority to pass tariffs for the “general welfare,” what was there to stop it from limiting or even abolishing slavery?

Amd yet the federal government did eventually abolish slavery anyway. 😐

Never before has the black race of Central Africa, from the dawn of history to the present day, attained a condition so civilized and so improved, not only physically, but morally and intellectually.

🙄

His deep suspicion of majoritarian democracy—his

Wonder if this is a sign of the suspicion of government that lives on in the south and west.

filibuster—under

I was expecting this to pop up