Anniversary - First enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown 8/20/1619

[JustAnotherGen]

In light of the Russian ass kisser Yam Tits wanting to "erase slavery" - I'd bet he knows this - or Miller does.

America is talking about what Will He Die Already said -

And not this day.

On or about August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of Virginia and are then bought by English colonists. The exact date is not definitively known (a letter from the time identified the ship's arrival coming in "the latter part of August&quot , but this date has been chosen by many to mark the arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World—beginning two and a half centuries of slavery in North America.

Founded at Jamestown in 1607, the Virginia Colony was home to about 700 people by 1619. The first enslaved Africans to arrive in Virginia disembarked at Point Comfort, in what is today known as Fort Monroe. Most of their names, as well as the exact number who remained at Point Comfort, have been lost to history, but much is known about their journey.

They were originally kidnapped by Portuguese colonial forces, who sent captured members of the native Kongo and Ndongo kingdoms on a forced march to the port of Luanda, the capital of modern-day Angola. From there, they were ordered on the ship San Juan Bautista, which set sail for Veracruz in the colony of New Spain. As was quite common, about 150 of the 350 captives aboard the ship died during the crossing. Then, as it approached its destination, the ship was attacked by two privateer ships, the White Lion and the Treasurer. Crews from the two ships kidnapped up to 60 of the Bautista’s enslaved people. It was the White Lion which docked at Virginia Colony's Point Comfort and traded some of the prisoners for food on August 20, 1619.

Originally indentured captives - quickly became a human horror:

The arrival at Point Comfort marked a new chapter in the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, which began in the early 1500s and continued into the mid-1800s. The trade uprooted roughly 12 million Africans, depositing roughly 5 million in Brazil and over 3 million in the Caribbean. Though the number of Africans brought to mainland North America was relatively small—roughly 400,000—their labor and that of their descendants was crucial to the economies of the British colonies and, later, the United States.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/august-20/first-african-slave-ship-arrives-jamestown-colony
First enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown, setting the stage for slavery in North America

[Easterncedar]

1. We need this. Thank you!!

[Keepthesoulalive]

2. The 2 original sins that still haunts us

The1st was the genocide of the indigenous population. Maybe they want to erase history because it puts them in a bad light ,which they deserve but don’t want to acknowledge.

[Deuxcents]

3. I have the book The 1619 Project and started it a while ago.. think I'll start from page one again..

Quite the history that TSF thinks doesn’t exist so no one needs to know.

[brer cat]

4. K&R

[BaronChocula]

5. These were forefathers and foremothers

of all Americans, including those petulant children who try to their best to dishonor the past out of some strange self-inflicted shame.