JAMESTOWN -- -- JAMESTOWN -- They were known as the "20 and odd," the first African slaves to set foot in North America at the English colony settled in 1607. For nearly 400 years, historians ...

It was along the James River in 1619 that an English ship called the "White Lion" came to Fort Monroe in Hampton. On board that ship were the first African slaves to arrive in Hampton Roads.

The first African slaves arrived in North America 400 years ago this month, landing at Jamestown in what is now Virginia. Recently, the question of paying reparations for the atrocity of slavery ...

The first documented Africans to arrive in the English-speaking colony of what would become Virginia, arrived in August 1619 on the “White Lion,” a Dutch man-of-war ship carrying enslaved cargo ...

The first African enslaved by Nuno Tristão and Antão Gonçalves — the Portuguese explorers credited with starting the African slave trade as we know it — was kidnapped by force.

CU Boulder’s Henry Lovejoy updates LiberatedAfricans.org, which highlights a largely forgotten period of time in the history of African diaspora.

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

This model shows a typical ship in the early 1700s on the Middle Passage. To preserve their profits, captains and sailors tried to limit the deaths of slaves from disease, suicide, and recolts. In ...

The First Coast has more “Firsts” in relation to African-American history than perhaps any other region of the American South. Unfortunately, the publicity machines, and on occasion faux facts ...

This BBC Bitesize National 5 revision guide looks at the impact of slave fortresses on Africa during the transatlantic trade in enslaved people.

The 60-acre cemetery is the resting place for thousands of African Americans, including leaders and activists such as Maggie Lena Walker, the first African American woman to start a bank.