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 ...

Project 1619 notes the first enslaved Africans ... The nonprofit also promotes African history before slavery and Hampton’s African American history. Steele said the nonprofit’s board will ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

National Freedom Day honors the resilience of enslaved Africans and their descendants, while highlighting the ongoing fight ...

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 ...

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 ...

WATERLOO, Iowa (KWWL) -- Saturday, hundreds of people filled the Waterloo West High School Auditorium, for the 1619 Freedom School's African American ... from a statewide first grader event ...

Benin is not the first country to grant citizenship to descendants of slaves. Earlier this ... the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in North America in 1619. But Benin’s citizenship ...

One of several murals in the 1619 Freedom School depicting pivotal moments in Black history. A Waterloo after-school literacy program will host the city’s 19 th African American Read-In after ...