When history records the work of those who were abolitionists, the participation and contributions of free people of color is ...

The Spanish have explored all three of these options, and now with Jamestown the English have to explore these options. And they try them all. Bringing Africans is not their first choice ...

The stories being told: Jamestown Settlement The exhibits you ... You’ll find stories of the first Africans to arrive in Virginia, the Powhatans, who’d been there years prior, and the ...

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 ...

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 ...