We in English-speaking America sometimes think of them as the first slaves in Jamestown in 1619. But there had been many Africans in North America before that, traveling with the Spanish explorers ...

Hulu will produce a documentary series based on ” The 1619 Project,” stories in The New York Times that examined the legacy of slavery in America dating from the arrival of ...

click image for close-up American illustrator ... The colony already had black slaves; these had generally come by way of the Caribbean Islands. In 1655, the first large shipment of slaves ...

It proliferated for millennia before slaves are first known to have been sold in Virginia, in 1619. It persisted long ... people far from our shores without American influence.