Screen Shot of the New York Times homepage for its series, “1619.” New York Times Kelley Fanto Deetz, University of Virginia Four hundred years after the event, the New York Times has published a special project focusing on the first Africans arriving in 1619 at Point Comfort, Virginia, and the legacy of slavery in the U.S. “No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the years of slavery that followed,” the introduction said.read more