Between the World & Me
The Arrival to America #2
The 1619 Landing
The landing of the first Africans in Virginia is one of the most significant events we interpret. Although English colonists in Virginia did not invent slavery, and the transition from a handful of bound African laborers to a legalized system of full-blown chattel slavery took many decades, 1619 marks the beginning of race-based bondage that defined the African American experience.
Aug. 20, 1619 - First Enslaved Africans Arrive in New World
Slavery develops in colonial Virginia
Africans who arrived as slaves had already suffered many terrible months before reaching Virginia. Most lived in tribal villages in western Africa before they were captured in wars or kidnapped by other Africans who traded slaves.
The arrival to Virginia in 1619
On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of Virginia and are then bought by English colonists. The arrival of enslaved Africans in the New World marks the beginning of two and a half centuries of slavery in North America.
Slavery in America: the US commemorates the arrival of the first African slaves in 1619
Phillis Wheatley the great Poet
In 1773, Phillis Wheatley accomplished something that no other woman of her status had done. She believed that slavery was the issue that prevented the colonists from achieving true heroism.
And Still I Rise
African Americans Overcoming Education Adversities
African Americans in the former slave-holding states saw education as an important step towards achieving equality, independence, and prosperity. As a result, they found ways to learn despite the many obstacles that poverty and white people placed in their path.
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