1619: The first Africans arrive in the New World. ... these slaves were stolen from a Portuguese slave ship, ... there are more than 42 million people in the U.S. who identify as African American.

A Bethune-Cookman symposium, "Before 1619," is a look back at 400 years since the arrival of the first African slaves in Virginia, and before, as the first Africans had arrived in Florida as early ...

At the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond’s exhibit on 400 years of African American history, curator Karen Sherry described the first Africans who were bought to the Virginia ...

In late August 1619, “20 and odd” captive Africans first touched the soil at Point Comfort (now Fort Monroe National Monument), part of England’s new colony in Virginia.These men and women ...

How the first Africans came to America — whether as slaves ... “We are now at the 400-year anniversary — just 90 miles from here in 1619. The first ... As a longtime student of African ...

When Nikole Hannah-Jones noticed the absence of her ancestors in American history, it inspired her to tell the full story of America.

In 1619, colonists of the recently founded settlement of Jamestown (now in Virginia) purchased the first African slaves brought to British North America, 20 to 30 unfortunate souls sold by English ...

The actual status of the first African captives brought to Virginia is still debated by historians. About 20 African captives arrived at Point Comfort in 1619 in what would become Virginia.

The first documented Africans to arrive in the English-speaking colony of what would become Virginia, arrived in August 1619 on the “White Lion,” a Dutch man-of-war ship carrying enslaved cargo ...

Dominion Resources has donated $1.2 million to the effort to commemorate the 400th anniversary of key events of 1619, including the first arrival of African slaves in English North America, ...