Shadows Fall North Virtual Classroom
A film that seeks to answer the question: What happens when we move towards a fuller understanding of our history by including all voices?
A film that seeks to answer the question: What happens when we move towards a fuller understanding of our history by including all voices?
The 1619 Project. In August of 1619, a ship appeared on the horizon, near Point Comfort, a coastal port in the British colony of Virginia. It carried more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold to the colonists. This marks the beginning of American slavery. America was not yet America, but this was the moment it began. No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the 250 years of slavery that followed. On the…