The False 1619 Project

Jeannette Holland Austin
4 min readApr 13, 2022

It is amazing how activists invent history to serve devious purposes and sell it to the American public. Nonetheless, unless you were taught a proper history in school, a genealogist, or are well-read on colonial history, the truth might escape you.

There were no slaves in Virginia in 1619.* In fact, Jamestown was the only existing population in the colony. The colony was first colonized in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London Company and consisted of people from Great Britain. King James I , having given the company a charter to colonize all of the land between New York and North…

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Jeannette Holland Austin

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