Sometime in August 1619, the first Africans in the English colonies arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, just a few miles away from what would become the College of William and Mary, founded in 1693 as a ...
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement on the American continent. All Virginians, and most Americans, know that. For those who know the story of Jamestown, the basics of our introduction ...
HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) – In 2019, Virginia commemorated the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans brought to English North America. In 1619, about 20 Africans were brought against their will ...
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