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 ...

Examine this, and other 1619 events, including the arrival of the first recorded Africans to English North America, the recruitment of significant numbers of English women, the first official ...

Project 1619 notes the first enslaved Africans, who were kidnapped from Angola, first landed at Point Comfort, today’s Fort ...

Newport was shocked when he returned to Jamestown in 1608 and found only 38 settlers remaining. To add to the struggles, he had brought 100 new settlers with him. The first women arrived in ...

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has travelled to Ghana in West Africa for events marking 400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in America. In 1619 ...