Mansour: Why We Chose 1620 as the Year of ‘Our True Founding,’ not 1619
The Pilgrims’ First Dark Winter — and What America Aspires to Be
We chose the Pilgrims and their establishment of the Plymouth Colony in 1620 as the date of “our true founding” in order to repudiate the practice of slavery that was established in the colonies in 1619. By doing so, we affirmed that our nation was conceived in liberty, not racism.
