It proliferated for millennia before slaves are first known to have been sold in Virginia, in 1619. It persisted long after it was abolished in the United States in 1865. It was practiced by ...

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 ...

Reparations. For what? For whom? What does this word mean? At its basic level, Reparations means to make someone whole for ...

Slavery's inhumane codes and punishments foment ... at the edge of a wilderness they call Virginia. 1619 - A mystery ship drops anchor at Jamestown. Somewhere on the high seas the crew had robbed ...