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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The Native Americans along the Salish Sea and elsewhere in what is now the USA captured and used slaves long before the 1600’s. Sometimes they even killed slaves during a potlatch as a display of wealth.
But it was those evil English that founded this country on slavery (and later became abolitionists) who bear the guilt and shame of this country. Nahh.
Humans have been voluntarily “enslaving” (please define) themselves to others for millennia, in exchange for food, shelter and protection. They still are in one form or another.
Humans have been voluntarily “enslaving” (please define) themselves to others for millennia, in exchange for food, shelter and protection. They still are in one form or another.
They died of mosquito born diseases mainly malaria. Blacks with sickle cell are less vulnerable and lived longer but cost more than the Irish, scots and criminals who sold for the cost of shipment. White slaves were treated far worse because of their cheapness.
I venture to say the Spanish and Portuguese are considerably more to blame for Western Hemisphere slavery if you go by the numbers. Only 5 % of the slaves brought to the New World went to North America, British colonial areas. 95% went to South America and the Caribbean. 09% went to Brazil. When it all started is irrelevant.
Whenever I hear ‘undeniable’ or ‘settled science’, or ‘all scientist agree’ I know that someone is trying to peddle bull shit for some other ulterior motive that is not readily apparent. So let’s hear all of the conversation and see what is really going on. Slavery was not invented by the U.S.. If fact, the U.S. did not exist even 1619. It was a British colony.
That may be a true ‘fact’ if you limit your review to only the original 13 colonies and to African slaves. What about slaves held by the Native Americans or the Spanish in Florida, Puerto Rico or California and the southwest, the French in the Louisiana Territories, or Did Erik the Red, the Viking explorer, have any slaves on his ship? My guess is that the Native Americans in English North America had their fair share of slaves. Omitting them shows a contempt for the Native American culture as being unworthy of consideration by a supercilious Western Culture perspective. But that seems to be the intent. Ignore all other information that does not conform or support you hypothesis that America is evil.
This attempt to somehow paint the USA as somehow the evil perpetrator of slavery on the world, or even just this one little corner is just plain wrong, evil, and a lie.
Another true fact piece of BullShit from the evil lying left.
Kinda hard for this to be America for the simple reason....America was not a country at the time.
No way....they were all sitting around singing campfire songs.
America? I thought America was founded in 1776. Every slave owned in the Colonies before 1776 was owned by an Englishman. What is this crap about “America”?
On what? Not horses, which weren’t available to them until the Spanish introduced them to the wild. Not intentionally, I presume . . .
I quite frankly am not even slightly interested to know the details of slavery in North America. What I *am* interested in,and pleased by,is that slavery was outlawed here almost 200 years ago and that the ancestors of those slaves have opportunities in the current day United States that their distant cousins in Africa would sell their souls to enjoy.
America was not created until 160 years later.
The first slaves were “native” Indians and no one knows how far back that goes.
Heads were mounted, the rest eaten.
There were only four of them brought here then.
How about the “Native Americans” who enslaved other “Native Americans?”
As I recall, the Bible notes the existence of a Jubilee Year, occurring every fifty years, at which time slaves were freed.
In 1860 did the “Native Americans” have 3.9 million slaves.
Slavery had been practiced for thousands of years around the world. The word "slave" in English reflects the fact that so many Slavs were enslaved in the Middle Ages...most of them probably ending up as slaves in the Muslim world. If the topic is slavery it should be about ending slavery where it still exists today, not guilt-tripping white Americans because some white Americans were slaveowners long ago.
One of my ancestors signed a petition in 1779 supporting a bill for religious freedom in Virginia. I think that is more important than whether or not he owned any slaves.
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