Slavery's inhumane codes and punishments foment ... at the edge of a wilderness they call Virginia. 1619 - A mystery ship drops anchor at Jamestown. Somewhere on the high seas the crew had robbed ...

In 2019, 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 ...

A: The Virginia colonists reacted to Dunmore's Proclamation with a proclamation of their own, to their slaves, which pointed out that Dunmore's Proclamation applied only to the slaves of Patriot ...

In late August 1619, a battered English ship called the White Lion docked ... This eventually led to the arrival of more African slaves in Virginia and other North American colonies who contributed ...

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 ...

Bells across the country will toll Sunday afternoon as the National Park Service marks the 400th anniversary of the 1619 landing ... of the first slaves being brought to Virginia,” Gable said.

From the moment the first slaves arrived in the Virginia Colony in 1619, those in bondage began looking for a way out. For the next 230 years, they devised many ways to escape their enslavement.