1619 And The Arrow of Time

 The idea behind the 1619 Project, is that the "real" founding of the United States was in 1619, when the first slave was brought here.

The problem is that the United States didn't exist until 1776.  We were part of the British Empire and did not rule our own affairs.  Whatever happened 157 years before our founding, has no bearing on what we created in 1776.

But, what if 1776 was itself about slavery?  Like, if the British were about to outlaw it and so we were motivated to be independent because of this, undesirable change.  The British outlawed slavery in 1833.

So we founded a new nation to protect slavery, 57 years before our masters outlawed it?  That is some real thinking ahead, or the 1619 Project is complete bullshit.