PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. James Horn is President of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation (Preservation Virginia) at Historic Jamestowne. This portentous year marked both the origin of the most important political development in American history, the rise of democracy, and the emergence of what would in time become one of the nation's greatest challenges: the corrosive legacy of racial inequality that has afflicted America since its beginning. Amazon.in - Buy 1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in. Jamestown, the cradle of American democracy, also. In 1619, historian James Horn sheds new light on the year that gave birth to the great paradox of our nation: slavery in the midst of freedom. 1619 offers a new interpretation of the significance of Jamestown in the long trajectory of American history. A few weeks later, a battered privateer entered the Chesapeake Bay carrying the first African slaves to land on mainland English America. In the newly built church at Jamestown, the General Assembly - the first gathering of a representative governing body in America - came together.

The essential history of the extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand in colonial Virginia.Īlong the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course of history.

1619 by James Horn