Genre
Revisionist History
Setting and Context
Primarily America
Narrator and Point of View
Told mostly from a third person point of view.
Tone and Mood
Sad, Tragic, Violent, Merciless, Chaotic, and Solemn
Protagonist and Antagonist
In most of the stories in the 1619 Project, there are no protagonists and antagonists. Only victims (Africans taken from their homes) and perpetrators (typically presented as white people in the stories, but also other Africans who sold off their brothers, cousins, neighbors, and countrymen to slavers).
Major Conflict
Black Americans struggle to (at least initially) break free from the bonds from slavery, and later, their struggle to gain autonomy and be treated fairly.
Climax
Not applicable - this is a collection of stories, many of which don't have a discernible climax.
Foreshadowing
Not applicable - this is a collection of stories, the vast majority of which are non-fiction in nature and don't use foreshadowing.
Understatement
The evil work done by Africans to sell fellow Africans to slavers is understated quite often during the project.
Allusions
Mainly to the history of the United States, geography of the United States and Africa, the Bible, mythology, and religion - particularly Christianity - in general.
Imagery
Many of the stories featured in the 1619 Project use very harsh imagery to describe, for example, the horrible conditions African slaves had to endure.
Paradox
A couple of the essays in the 1619 Project make the case the Decoration of Independence is paradoxical: that "all men are created equal," as the famous document says, isn't at all true. That the more correct statement would have been: "all wealthy white landowners are created equal."
Parallelism
The stories of many African slaves are paralleled throughout many of the stories in the project.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
Often, the slave ships carrying Africans to America are personified.
