ALmost 400 years ago, the first enslaved Africans arrived in the Virginia colony at Point Comfort on the James River. Spanish records suggest that the enslaved Africans were captured in the Portuguese colony of Angola. Although they were placed on board a ship bound for Mexico, they were ultimately stolen by two English Ships: the White Lion and the Treasurer.
Records show that “20 and odd Negroes” were sold in exchange for food; the remaining Africans arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, on August 20, 1619, where they were sold into slavery and dispersed throughout the colony. For the next six decades, white indentured servants–not slaves–were the predominant form of labor on Virginia plantations. In the middle of the 17th century, Virginia became the first of the 13 colonies to legally define slavery, and as the slave population continued to grow, African slave labor became the dominant system on Virginia farms.
By 1861, when the Civil War began, Virginia had the largest population of enslaved black people of any state in the Confederacy.
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Who we the people. Know you know who you are start knowing that we are coming up on our 400 th year anniversary of freedom it was stated that
we would be in bondage for 400 years. This is our year of jubilee
Now the fireworks should sound and the freedom should began in our inside of our souls. Burst for joy for my people who was slave end 8/25/2019
400 years we are coming out. Now let us learn from what was to what should be.
Was the date August 20, 1619 on the Julian Calendar (as was likely, since England and its colonies still used the Julian calendar in 1619)? If so, the date on the Gregorian Calendar that we use now would be August 30, 1619.
Inquiring minds want to know. We should commemorate this event on the correct Gregorian date!