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Calvin Pearson

@project1619

Point Comfort, todays Fort Monroe, is where the first documented Africans landed in 1619 on English occupied territory. Funds are being raised for a monument.

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1776 may be when you claimed your independence. But my people were still enslaved and had to harvest a crop so your people could have a celebration feast. But my people were enslaved for another 89 years making your people wealthy off the backs of free slave labor.

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AAHGS Annual Conference, Hampton, VA, Oct 12-17, 2020. The Landing Site of the first Enslaved Africans. August 25, 1619, Point Comfort.

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Heard Oprah will produce a movie on 1619. Hope she includes Project1619.org who has been telling the true story since 1994. Please forward to her if you can.

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Join us virtually for African Landing Day Commemoration. Saturday August 22nd at 10 AM and 2 PM. aaam.wildapricot.org/event-3949760

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#GivingDay Support Project 1619 Inc on Tuesday November 30th by going to Facebook - Project 1619. Donate at 8:00 AM and your donation could be matched.

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Project 1619 Inc, is a non-profit group in Hampton, Virginia, who is credited as the Founder of the 1619 Movement by changing the narrative of first enslaved African landing in English North America. Here is their story. Project1619.org

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Calvin Pearson to be Honored by Society of First African Families of English America on April 15th in Philadelphia. lnkd.in/eCb8FR2u