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 ...

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America ... Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1984. Kolchin, Peter. American Slavery, 1619-1877. New York: Hill and ...

Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery is available at this ... After the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia in 1619, the British colonies lay the groundwork for a system ...

The writer explores the historical journey of racial politics in America, tracing the path from the oppression of Black slaves to the transformative Voting Rights Act of 1965, and explore its lasting ...

It proliferated for millennia before slaves are first known to have been sold in Virginia, in 1619. It persisted long ... people far from our shores without American influence.

Bells across the country will toll Sunday afternoon as the National Park Service marks the 400th anniversary of the 1619 landing of ... the anniversary of the first slaves being brought to ...