Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project, will speak at Sonoma State April 3 as part of the H. Andréa Neves ...

It proliferated for millennia before slaves are first known to have been sold in Virginia, in 1619. It persisted long after it was abolished in the United States in 1865. It was practiced by ...

1619: A Dutch ship brings the first permanent African settlers to Jamestown. Africans soon are put to work on tobacco plantations. 1663: A Virginia court decides that a child born to a slave ...

Slavery's inhumane codes and punishments foment ... at the edge of a wilderness they call Virginia. 1619 - A mystery ship drops anchor at Jamestown. Somewhere on the high seas the crew had robbed ...

Information or research assistance regarding American Slavery is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution. The following information has been prepared to assist those interested in this ...

Young women, young men born free in the highlands of Angola, only to be captured, bound, and forced on a ‘death march’ along this very coast to this spot by slave traders in the year 1619.

It's estimated that over 11 million Africans were enslaved, with more than 1 million dying during the brutal transatlantic voyage to the New World. Once slaves were captured throughout the ...

"Young women [and] young men born free in the highlands in Angola, only to be captured, bound and forced in a death march along this very coast to this spot by slave-traders in the year 1619." ...