num_pages: 48
description: The 1619 Projects lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States thoughtfully rendered by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and Newbery honor-winning author Rene Watson. A young student receives a family tree assignment in school but she can only trace back three generations. Grandma gathers the whole family and the student learns that 400 years ago in 1619 their ancestors were stolen and brought to America by white slave traders. But before that they had a home a land a language. She learns how the people said to be born on the water survived.
language: English
title: The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
publisher: Kokila