Category: First Africans in America
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First Africans in Virginia. August 20, 1619.
Image: “Landing Negroes at Jamestown from Dutch man-of-war, 1619”. This 1901 illustration’s caption is incorrect, as The White Lion was an English privateer operating under a Dutch letter of marque, and landed at nearby Old Point Comfort. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, August 20, 1619, twenty Africans, kidnapped by the Portuguese in Angola,…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 