'The 1619 Project' claims the founding fathers rebelled against the British to preserve slavery in America. Is this true? See perspectives and news across the spectrum from CNNOpinion, Forbes, and JimBovard:
multimedia project that sparked controversy for claiming a motivation behind the American revolution was colonists’ desire to preserve slavery in America.
for the project, project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones writes, “we may never have revolted against Britain if some of the founders had not understood that slavery empowered them to do so; nor if they had not believed that independence was required in order to ensure that slavery would continue.”Hannah-Jones defended the claim in an interview with Forbes, stating, “we've all been indoctrinated into these myths about America and we've all been told a history that's not true.
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