Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...

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 ...

At that moment, in 1619, America incorporated slavery into its history ... and Portuguese were the first Europeans to initiate the capture and transport of African slaves to the Americas.

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 ...

1619 - A mystery ship ... 1641 - Massachusetts becomes the first English colony to legalize slavery. Connecticut and Virginia soon follow. 1705 - The position of African slaves in Virginia is ...

The first enslaved Africans were brought to Virginia by an English privateer ship, the White Lion, in late August 1619. Thanks to Nikole Hannah-Jones and her 1619 Project with the New York Times ...

But tragedy struck around 1619 when they were “kidnapped and forcibly sailed across the ocean aboard three slave ships ... Tucker “became the first documented African child born in English ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Children at the 1619 Freedom School learned possibilities are endless for them while speaking with an Oscar-nominated film director.