Americans don’t think enough about slavery? Seriously? As a frequent visitor to your country, I’d argue that you think of little else.

There has been a great fuss about the 1619 Project, an initiative led by the New York Times aimed at making slavery the basis of America’s collective memory. 1619 was the year that the first kidnapped Africans were sold in Virginia, beginning a sordid story that was to last two-and-a-half centuries.