FIRST ENSLAVED AFRICANS ARRIVE

400 years ago, the first ship carrying African slaves arrived in Jamestown, Virginia | WSET

On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by
the Portuguese, arrived in the British colony of Virginia and
are 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
.

1619: 400 years ago, a ship arrived in Virginia, bearing human cargo | Slavery, History ...

Black Then1619: The First African Slaves Arrive in a Ship into What Would then Become the United ...

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