Super readable history of slavery & racism in the United States featuring essays, poems, & short historical fiction vignettes. I'm not used to writing by historians who are actually good at writing, so I was surprised by how readable The 1619 Project is. The photos included were also great. The pictures of Carrie Elk & Annie Lowe Lincoln from 1904 on page 134 & of Bill Hurley from 1909 on page 164 look like they could have been taken in 2019. Hurley's picture especially looks like he's a television presenter. The biggest revelation to me in 1619 Project was how deadly hunger, disease, & violence made the time right after emancipation for formerly enslaved people. The essay about capitalism & slavery by Matthew Desmond was really good, & had a lot of interesting statistics about the economy of the antebellum United States. The essay about Music by Wesley Morris featured the most extravagant language of the whole book.