NC Museum of History Docent Book Club


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Book cover for "The 1619 Project"
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"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more...
Book cover for "The fall of the house of Dixie"
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Book cover for "From here to equality"
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5 stars
Book cover for "The half has never been told"
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Historian Edward Baptist reveals how the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States.
Book cover for "How the word is passed"
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Examines the legacy of slavery by highlighting the continued preservation of monuments and landmarks that hold violent and racist symbolism.
Book cover for "The war before the war"
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"The ... story of how fugitive slaves drove the nation to Civil War"--