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

and the first Puritans would not land at what became Boston for another 11 years, in 1630. At that moment, in 1619, America incorporated slavery into its history, into its very DNA. A Portuguese ...

But tragedy struck around 1619 when they were “kidnapped ... “We were [essentially] on the first slave ship to come to America.” Heartwarmingly enough, despite starting off with trials ...

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 ...

The 1619 Project argues that the systemic racism that is slavery's legacy remains deeply rooted in every American institution ... This article was first published in the latest issue of The ...

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 ...

After establishing settlements in North America, England joins in ... 1641 - Massachusetts becomes the first English colony to legalize slavery. Connecticut and Virginia soon follow.

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 ...

Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project, will speak at Sonoma State April 3 as part of the H. Andréa Neves ...

I’ve previously covered the factual problems with the New York Times’ 1619 Project ... and development of America and its ideas, particularly as it concerns slavery and the place of African ...