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  1. Part of what the #1619Project tries to do, especially lead essay by @nhannahjones, is expand our notion of who counts as "the Founders." James Forten didn't see slavery as a necessary evil. Or Richard Allen, or Absalom Jones. jstor.org/stable/4491598
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      This is why the project can useful in the classroom, as a way of engaging students in the questions of who "the Founders" were, who counts as having founded the nation.
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        "[Richard] Allen lived in Jefferson's day, so he is not a presentist when he critiqued slavery and racism. If he is not in our history books, we are false to the past -- and the promise of America." Richard Newman on Allen as a Founder: historynewsnetwork.org/article/51421
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