7. Four hundred years after enslaved Africans were first taken to Virginia, most Americans still don’t know the full story of slavery.

This is what you didn’t learn in school. It’s our latest installment of The Times Magazine’s 1619 Project, examining the legacy of slavery in America. Above, a child’s iron shackles from before 1860.

Mary Elliott, a specialist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, helps track the roots of slavery in the U.S. from a papal decree in the 15th century, and reveals the brutal reality of sugar cane plantations and the continual resistance of enslaved Africans. Read more stories from the 1619 Project here.

Demand was off the charts for the print edition of the project in The Times Magazine and the companion broadsheet section over the weekend. Both are now available in The Times Store.

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