SLAVERY IN NORTH AMERICA BEGAN IN 1619

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On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrived in the British colony of Virginia and were
then bought by English colonists. The arrival of the enslaved
Africans in the New World marked the beginning of two and a
half centuries of
slavery in North America.      


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