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 ...

She called it the 1619 Project. The year 1619 is not a date well known among Americans, and yet slavery in North America began 400 years ago this month, on an unknown day in August of 1619.

there is no evidence of a single colonist expressing support for independence in order to protect slavery. The 1619 Project’s claims were based not on historical sources but on imputation and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most retellings of Black history in the United States start with Britain’s city of Jamestown, where enslaved Africans were first brought to the Virginia Colony in 1619. It has become an iconic ...

The writer explores the historical journey of racial politics in America, tracing the path from the oppression of Black ...

“To commemorate the anniversary of the 1619 landing, we are highlighting ... The 13th Amendment ended slavery in the U.S., but the pursuit of equality and civil rights for all endures, Smith ...