Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

below are a few quotes and questions that they raise: 1. "The year white Virginians first purchased enslaved Africans, the start of American slavery, an institution so influential and corrosive that it both helped create the nation and nearly led to its demise, is indisputably a foundational historical date." Did the individuals who made decision to purchase enslaved Africans consider themselves Virginians? 
 If yes — then, what it meant to be a Virginian in 1619? Did it mean electing representatives for legislative and judicial bodies of "Virginia" in 1619? Does the author imply “Virginia” as a national state with some identity of its inhabitants? We must answer these questions in order to understand the mechanisms of decision-making ("purchased enslaved Africans") if we don't want let this happen again. 2. "They’d arrived one year before the iconic ship carrying the English people who got the credit for building it all." Does “building it all” imply establishing rules for living in a new society? Governing documents? Agreement Between the Settlers of New Plymouth? Were there settlers arrived on Mayflower in indentured servitude (when they were leaving England)? If yes, does the author bring this “from the margins of the American story to the center, where they belong, by arguing that slavery and its legacy have profoundly shaped modern American life, even as that influence had been shrouded or discounted.”? 3. There are some quotes of Frederick Douglass in the text... here is another quote of Douglass -- the motto of The North Star (anti-slavery newspaper): "Right is of no Sex—Truth is of no Color—God is the Father of us all, and all we are Brethren" Should we remember this one among others? If Truth is of no Color -- can history have color?