1619: The first Africans arrive in the New World

When discussing slavery in the United States, it is important to look at figures. Some experts estimate that more than 1.25 million people were stolen from Africa between 1525 and 1866 during the slave trade in the New World. Of the people who experienced a dangerous journey, only 10.7 million survived the Middle Ages.

According to data from the Atlantic crossing slave trade database, most prisoners are shipped directly to the Caribbean and South America, of which 8 million are shipped to Brazil.

However, especially the figure of 20 indicates the beginning of American slavery. In 1619, the first African who landed in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia was recorded as "20 strange blacks".

The slave came from Angola, was stolen from a Portuguese slave ship, then raised the flag of the Netherlands, was brought to a British warship, and finally sold to colonial settlers.

At that time, slavery was not in a legal status in this young colony, but 20 Africans were used as servants of the contract or were slavery to introduce the black slaves to the present United States It was.

Although little is known about the top 20, the concept has developed into institutional slavery and spread rapidly throughout the American colonies. When Abraham Lincoln issued a declaration of liberation in 1863, those "twenty strange blacks" appeared like the four million slaves in the United States.

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1619 was the key to establishing the first British permanent colony in North America. In addition to the first representative legislative assembly in the New World, in 1619 marked the first recorded African who arrived in North American English, the first official English Thanksgiving in North America, and entrepreneurs and Virginia did. Innovative spirit of colony. In 2019, American Evolution will host two events to study democratic countries and democratic leadership. Please save the schedule of these events. Global Emerging Leaders Summit held from March 6 to 13, 2019 in Charlottesville, Richmond and Williamsburg, Virginia. Young politicians, governments, citizen leaders, and students will contemplate the challenges of leadership, governance and citizen participation in the 21st century.

People in Africa are immigrants to the New World in the UK, and their destinations and fates have no choice. The first African American who arrived in Jamestown on a Dutch trade ship in 1619 was not a slave and was not free. Until their duties are completed, they will serve as servants of the covenant. These lucky people live as free people in the rest of my life, but this is rare in the past few decades. England's mother was completely devoid of the slave tradition, but slavery gradually replaced contract slavery as the main means of planting labor in the former South.