1619 marks a key moment in American and African-American history. This is why it matters — and why it's become controversial. Credit: Mashable composite; Getty Images / mikroman6 We look to history to ...
Sometime in August 1619, the first Africans in the English colonies arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, just a few miles away from what would become the College of William and Mary, founded in 1693 as a ...
Call me the 1617 Project. Yep, that’s the year my first ancestor born on these then-wild and woolly shores saw the light of day in the touch and go environment of the Jamestown Colony. Advertisement ...
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It was 400 years ago that the first enslaved African people arrived in what would become English North America. Organizations across the country, state and region have been marking that historic ...
The year 1619 was one of firsts for the region. It was when the first representative legislative assembly in the Western Hemisphere met, the first enslaved Africans were brought to British North ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Weekend Read is a new project by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Content Curation Desk. The team will take a deeper dive at issues that affect Georgians and others throughout the ...
Jamestown doesn’t much make the news except when someone famous visits. Queen Elizabeth II has come twice, in 1957 on the 350-year anniversary of the founding of this first permanent English colony in ...
Angela landed in the Virginia Colony in the sweltering summer of 1619, after being brutally snatched from her native Africa. Along with other Africans, she was held captive in the bowels of a boat ...
Angela landed in the Virginia Colony in the sweltering summer of 1619, after being brutally snatched from her native Africa. Along with other Africans, she was held captive in the bowels of a boat ...
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