The New York Times eventually qualified that specific claim to say that it was a motivating factor for "some" colonists, while maintaining that the legacy of slavery is pervasive in shaping modern American life.
While project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her introductory essay, the original project also met with criticism from across the political spectrum, with many historians disputing its original claim that protecting slavery was a major motivation behind the American Revolutionary War. The project debuted as a collection of essays in The New York Times Magazine in August 2019 – the 400th anniversary of the introduction of Black slavery to America. In exploring this thesis, the project aims to demonstrate that slavery has shaped every aspect of American life since then, from policing to justice to capitalism, and that recognition of this fact is essential for social progress. The premise of The 1619 Project is that the arrival of the first slave ship in the early American colonies is the "true" national origin story of the United States. The series is a six-episode program produced by Lionsgate Television, which first aired on Hulu on January 26, 2023. Hosted by project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones, the executive producer of the docuseries is Oprah Winfrey, who worked with documentary filmmaker Roger Ross Williams, and many other producers and writers. It is adapted from The 1619 Project, a New York Times Magazine journalism project focusing on slavery in the United States, which was later turned into the anthology The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. The 1619 Project is an American streaming television documentary series created for Hulu.
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