Debunking the 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide America

Knowing that slavery was pretty much the status quo for the first 5000 years of human civilization And only became abhorrent to the majority in the last 200 years or so, I knew the 1619 project was BS going in, but this book gave some scholarly back up to that opinion.I found some great sources of material for further reading

No complaints. Nice price, delivery on time. Book in perfect condition. Can't ask for more.

To all of the critics of this book who say you cannot debunk "facts" or you cannot debunk "history," I would like to ask this question: did you ever consider the possibility that any of the facts or the history that you believe is incorrect?For example, how many critics of this book are aware that in the context of world history, America's role in slavery was relatively small? How small? Less than 2% of all of the slaves ever taken from Africa and transported to the Middle East or the Western Hemisphere ever came to the United States. How many are aware that 1-2 million slaves from southern and eastern Europe were taken by North African Muslims from 1500-1800 - far, far more than ever arrived in the US (less than 400,000). How many critics of the book believe that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution say that only rich white men have rights or can vote? False. There were AT LEAST five states that had black voters at the time that the Constitution was being written, debated, and ratified. How many people have accepted the lie of the 1619 Project that the main reason or one of the main reasons (after the editors of the 1619 project were called out by one of their own historians and had to amend the wording) for declaring independence was to preserve slavery? On the contrary, there are untold numbers of writings from the Revolutionary Era, including political pamphlets, public documents, and sermons, directly linking the cause of independence to the ABOLITION of slavery. How many critics of the book are aware that the Constitution permitted the eventual outlawing of the slave trade in 1808? How many are aware that the founding generation, at the first opportunity that they had to determine the status of slavery in new territories, outlawed it? How many are aware that 8 states outlawed slavery in the immediate years following the Revolution? That seems like a funny way to base a nation on racism and slavery doesn't it? How many are aware that Frederick Douglass, a great American and a former slave, referred to our Constitution as a "glorious liberty document" and "an anti-slavery instrument?" How many are aware that in his various speeches and writings calling for the end of slavery Abraham Lincoln constantly referred to the words and deeds of the Founding Fathers to support his arguments?I could go on and on, but please, all I ask is that you consider the possibility that many of the slanderous tropes about America and its founding that you have heard may in fact be false.

Mary Grabar has taken an in-depth academic approach to utterly discredit the left wing propaganda that is Nikole Hannah-Jones' 1619 Project. Grabar's work provides a thorough spanking to the idiocy and lies that are at the heart of 1619, a book designed to divide the nation through lies, selective quotes, and a pernicious attack on America. Grabar's critique of 1619 exposes Hannah-Jones' NY Times project as a sloppy journalistic effort that serves as a vehicle for the advancement of the discredited Zinn school of presentism in history. It is a disgrace that so many public schools are teaching the 1619 project as truth when it distorts the past in an effort to control the present and future. A typical strategy employed by Marxists/Communists from Beijing to Berkeley. Just one statistic presented by Grabar's extensive research: 2% of free blacks in the south owned black slaves in 1830 versus 6% of whites. You won't read that in the 1619 books; just one of many inconvenient truths left out of Hannah-Jones polemic. Hannah-Jones should have received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Says it like it is; well written

God bless Mary Grabar! The prophet Hosea warned, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge..." In contemplating the seriousness of that warning, it would seem just to modify the noun, "knowledge," with the adjective, "true." The historical omissions, half truths and outright falsehoods so widely disseminated via the 1619 Project threaten to divide and destroy a great nation and its multiracial inhabitants.

Great book, very well researched

Although it is meticulously and extensively researched, this is not a dry, scholarly book. On the contrary, it is a page-turner, and draws the reader in to an engaging argument. Mary Grabar makes a devastating case for the divisive nature of the 1619 Project. She takes apart the major claims of the Project with overwhelming evidence of how these claims are false and how this Project is motivated by a radical and divisive political agenda. Must- reading for teachers and parents who oppose the teaching of Critical Race Theory in our schools.

This book does a good job of summarizing much of the extensive documentation on worldwide slavery, slavery in Britain's former colonies and slavery in post-colonial USA. It reminds us that it was Africans who captured and enslaved people and acted as the middle-men, transporting them to the coast and selling them to the Europeans who transported them to the Americas. Europeans hired Africans for crews on their ships and the indigenous peoples of the Americas and freed slaves were among the people who bought and owned slaves and sold them onward. Alas, you have to go to other sources to be reminded that John Adams was among Jefferson's many contemporaries who condemned the great man's hypocrisy on the whole subject of slavery. The author does the usual pro-Republican historian's job of portraying Jefferson as a saint and crediting him with things for which he does not deserve to be credited. Jefferson was NOT the author of the Declaration of Independence. He was one of a committee of five authors and was designated to do the drafting and re-drafting of a document that captures ideas that were common currency in the Britain and the 13 colonies of his day. As for the grievances the Declaration lists after the elegant pre-amble, read Andrew Roberts' George III for a scathing British Conservative's assessment of their validity.