on an unknown day in August of 1619. In that month, between 20 and 30 African slaves stepped off an English pirate’s ship in chains and shuffled into Jamestown, in Virginia, where English land ...

400 years after the first slave ship arrived in the English colony of Virginia, the New York Times featured a series of articles on the ways in which the legacy of slavery has shaped American history.

In 1917, he created this depiction of the 1619 arrival of Virginia's first blacks. In this image, the Dutch sailors, who have captured the blacks from a Spanish ship, are negotiating a trade with ...

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 ...