By publishing 1619. The other birth of the United States A few weeks after the start of Donald Trump’s second term, Virginie Adane, a lecturer in modern history at the University of Nantes, sheds unique light on the report that the President of the United States has with history. The debates on the memory of the slavery that it relates there show that competition from the accounts on the origin of the nation – which are found, from another angle, in the book which it publishes simultaneously, Women in America – is one of the neuralgic points of the battle for democracy and equality that has engaged across the Atlantic.
In 1619, in the Gulf of Mexico, two corsair ships attacked a Portuguese building carrying slaves. When they dock Virginia, at the end of August, the corsairs sell thirty of them to the English colonists. Thus summarized, the fact which is at the heart of your book “1619” may seem anecdotal. However, he became central to memorial debates in the United States. How did it happen?
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