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Four hundred years ago this year, two momentous events happened in Britain’s fledgling colony in Virginia: the New World’s first democratic assembly convened, and an English privateer brought kidnapped Africans to sell as slaves. Such were the conflicted origins of modern America.
17 Φεβ 2021 · 1619 is a pivotal date in American history for two reasons. This is why the year matters — and why it's become controversial. 1619 marks a key moment in American and African-American...
22 Σεπ 2024 · In the summer of 1619 two significant changes occurred in the colony that would have lasting influence. One was the company’s introduction of representative government to English America, which began on July 30 with the opening of the General Assembly.
20 Αυγ 2019 · It’s a central question in African American history we are still asking. Four hundred years ago today, on August 20, 1619, the White Lion arrived at Point Comfort, near current-day Hampton.
13 Αυγ 2019 · 1619. First enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown, setting the stage for slavery in North America. Photo Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images. On or about August 20, 1619, “20 and odd”...
13 Σεπ 2017 · In 1619, “20. and odd Negroes” arrived off the coast of Virginia, where they were “bought for victualle” by labor-hungry English colonists. The story of these captive Africans has set the stage...
Several weeks later, a battered privateer entered the Chesapeake Bay carrying the first African slaves to land on mainland English America. In 1619, historian James Horn sheds new light on the year that gave birth to the great paradox of our nation: slavery in the midst of freedom.
