[arthurus]

Unfortunately it starts off wrong. The first boatload were not slaves. They were indentured servants who worked themselves out of their servitude or died before they lasted that long. Slavery or indenture are not much different in the period of the indenture but that one ends. Slavery does not and is inherited.

[Spirited]

I suspect that each of you is speaking of different boatloads!

She may be talking about a boatload brought to what is now NY by Dutch settlers (the forebearers of FDR). They were here before the VA colony of 1603 as I recall. Plymouth (MA) was years later.

It would be interesting to know which she intended.