First Africans in Virginia
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first-africans-in-virginia-186-15173611
title:
First Africans in Virginia
text:
The first Africans in Virginia were a group of "twenty and odd" captive persons originally from modern-day Angola who landed at Old Point Comfort in Hampton, Virginia in late August 1619. Their arrival is seen as a beginning of the history of slavery in Virginia and British colonies in North America, although they were not in chattel slavery as it would develop in the United States, but were sold as indentured servants and had mostly worked off their indentures and were free by 1630. These colon
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1619 arrival of the first slaves in the North American colonies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Africans_in_Virginia
date created:
2019-10-08T13:54:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T04:12:33Z
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