Posted on 09/09/2019 12:15:40 PM PDT by re_tail20
The arrival of the first captives to the Jamestown Colony, in 1619, is often seen as the beginning of slavery in America—but enslaved Africans arrived in North America as early as the 1500s.
In late August 1619, the White Lion, an English privateer commanded by John Jope, sailed into Point Comfort and dropped anchor in the James River. Virginia colonist John Rolfe documented the arrival of the ship and “20 and odd” Africans on board. His journal entry is immortalized in textbooks, with 1619 often used as a reference point for teaching the origins of slavery in America. But the history, it seems, is far more complicated than a single date.
It is believed the first Africans brought to the colony of Virginia, 400 years ago this month, were Kimbundu-speaking peoples from the kingdom of Ndongo, located in part of present-day Angola. Slave traders forced the captives to march several hundred miles to the coast to board the San Juan Bautista, one of at least 36 transatlantic Portuguese and Spanish slave ships.
The ship embarked with about 350 Africans on board, but hunger and disease took a swift toll. En route, about 150 captives died. Then, when the San Juan Bautista approached what is now Veracruz, Mexico in the summer of 1619, it encountered two ships, the White Lion and another English privateer, the Treasurer. The crews stormed the vulnerable slave ship and seized 50 to 60 of the remaining Africans. After, the pair sailed for Virginia.
As noted by Rolfe, when the White Lion arrived in what is now present-day Hampton, Virginia, the Africans were offloaded and “bought for victuals.” Governor Sir George Yeardley and head merchant Abraham Piersey acquired the majority of the captives, most of whom were kept in Jamestown, America’s first permanent English settlement.
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Speaking simplistically, the Spanish and the Portuguese are just as much to blame for American Slavery as the English are.
WTF does this have to do with what’s going on in 2019?
Or the VAST slavery that is present NOW and involves muzzies.
Whatever.
All of these channels and msm outlets are politicizing themselves into non existence down the road.
Not good business to piss off half of an audience.
The John Rolfe mentioned in the article is my 12th great-grandfather.
America’s slavery began with Native Americans who practiced it at least as well as anyone else.
I read that the English tried using Irishmen as slaves in the West Indies but the Irish slaves could not stand the heat and died before the English got enough work out of them.
1619 was the first slave in british north america. I don’t see what is to be gained by arguing that undeniable fact.
How about we learn the history of the indigenous people of America at that time, who more than likely had their own slaves that they captured from other tribes.
And let’s not forget the slavery by the Incans, mayans, Aztecs, and Indigenous people of what is now North America, South America, and the Caribbean who practiced slavery in various forms throughout their history prior to European contact. ( not to mention cannibalism and human sacrifice)
Weren’t they indentured servants in 1619?
Your reparations bill is gonna be a doozy.
Liberals would have you believe that slavery STARTED in America and that at no time in history did it ever exist elsewhere.
“...U.S. school curricula tend to ignore much of what happened in the Atlantic prior to the Jamestown settlement and also the colonial projects of other countries that became part of America, such as Dutch New York, Swedish Delaware and French-Spanish Louisiana and Florida. “There is both an Anglo-centrism and east coast bias to much of traditional American history,” says (Mark)Summers.”
Best passage in the whole article (imho)
I read the English tried using Injuns as slaves in the Americas, but not only were they culturally unsuited to agricultural labor, it was considered unhealthy to be harboring captives when attacks from their prisoners’ tribes occurred.
Are you descended from John Rolfe’s son by Pocahontas, or did he have children by another wife after Pocahontas died?
America as a nation, was born in 1776. It then abolished slavery and by 1866 it can be reasonably asserted that slavery had ended. Roughly 90 years from inception of the nation to rejection of the concept of slavery.
The Brits had a much longer span. Roughly 1640 to 1830, or 190 years.
Islam has had a MUCH longer span. If we peg the start of Islam and slavery as 630 and the end of slavery as the last nation to ban (marked as the end of the Ottoman empire) the time span is about 1400 years. If one counts Mauritania as the last nation (Islamic) to abolish slavery, the time line extends to 1980’s.
Interesting. Seems I may have heard that before. Of course, African slavery in the northern colonies was attempted but the growing season was shorter, white owners couldn't find the right crops that would financially support a plantation, and African slaves didn't thrive in the colder climate.
Victorious Amerindian tribes often enslaved those whom they defeated. Long before Columbus.
Wow!
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