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

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 ...

It proliferated for millennia before slaves are first known to have been sold in Virginia, in 1619. It persisted long after it was abolished in the United States in 1865. It was practiced by ...