Hashaw's genealogical burrowing resulted in The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom in Jamestown (Carroll & Graf, 329 pp. $26.95). In it the one-time ...

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

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

Indeed, Spain was to Indian slavery what Portugal and later England were to African slavery. Ironically, Spain was the first imperial power to formally discuss and recognize the humanity of Indians.

JAMESTOWN, Va. — 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… ...

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.

For, by around the mid-16th century, in order to satisfy European/New World demand, African slave raiders needed more captives to sell as slaves to the Europeans – and that necessitated starting ...

The first Africans in Virginia were followed by more than 400,000 people captured and brought directly from West and central African to the North American slave ports, from New England to New Orleans.

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 ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - A marker in Biloxi now honors and shows the very place the first slaves were brought during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Biloxi NAACP held the program, talking about ...

It’s just easier to just call it slavery. 9. Africans sold slaves. Well … kinda. The first African enslaved by Nuno Tristão and Antão Gonçalves — the Portuguese explorers credited with ...