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 ...

It proliferated for millennia before slaves are first known to have been sold in Virginia, in 1619. It persisted long after it was abolished in the United States in 1865. It was practiced by ...

To The Reader’s Forum: Rich Lowry’s dismissal of Hulu’s “The 1619 Project” (“No, Slavery Didn’t Create Capitalism,” 2/24/2023) as “cartoonish”–likening it to Disney–is as problematic as it is ...

there is no evidence of a single colonist expressing support for independence in order to protect slavery. The 1619 Project’s claims were based not on historical sources but on imputation and ...

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 ...

Conn is participating in The 1619 Project, a New York Times initiative observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. Conn is participating in The 1619 Project, a New York Times ...