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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 marked 400 years since the first African slaves arrived in Virginia in 1619. Ghana’s Tourism Authority and the Office of Diaspora Affairs have extended the program into “Beyond the Return ...