We in English-speaking America sometimes think of them as the first slaves in Jamestown in 1619. But there had been many Africans in North America before that, traveling with the Spanish explorers ...

1619: A Dutch ship brings the first permanent African settlers to Jamestown. Africans soon are put to work on tobacco plantations. 1663: A Virginia court decides that a child born to a slave ...

In late August 1619, a battered English ship called the White Lion ... Historians who believe that the first Africans were slaves say that the Virginia colonists were very familiar with prevalent ...

It proliferated for millennia before slaves are first known to have been sold in Virginia, in 1619. It persisted long ... Asia. . . . Europeans did not invent the African slave trade; they found ...

Bells across the country will toll Sunday afternoon as the National Park Service marks the 400th anniversary of the 1619 landing of the first enslaved Africans ... of the first slaves being ...

The Tuckers are believed to be America’s first African family ... they were captured by another slave ship and sold into bondage in Virginia in 1619. In 1624, the couple had a baby boy, who ...

In 1619, a Dutch slave trading ship brought the first enslaved Africans to Britain's North American colonies Manufacturing of bitumen-lined water bottles The Art of Sausage Making The Corning ...