What Happened Today in History?
August 20th
First Enslaved Africans Arrive in Jamestown
On this day in 1619, about 20 Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of Virginia and are then bought by English colonists. This marks the arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World—beginning two and a half centuries of slavery in North America.
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E/I - Educational/Informational
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