The wonderful thing about history is that while majority of it seems to be set in stone, there could be a numerous amount of documents and finding to be unearthed and some that may never be seen again. I was intrigued with this article because it’s something I’d never heard about before. The 1619 Landing Day, a day meant to honor the first group of Africans in the America’s. The article does raise the point of what exactly should be factual and how rewriting history could be seen as problematic. One is the use of the term “indentured servant.” African Americans were slaves in the simplest forms no matter how one may want to put it, and using terms such as indentured servant only sugar coats the true sad history.
The article also makes point of keeping connected to the history at hand. When revelations like this are revealed it is imperative to make note, yet many historians are still hesitant about changing history and tend to omit anything that has to do with Black history. The point of the 1619 Landing day is to showcase African Americans presence in this country from the start, and while it may be a small thing, it still matters to the overall story of African American history.