A: The first people who come to Jamestown from Africa in a sense come as slaves. We're not sure whether they had been captured off a slave ship in the Caribbean or whether they'd been transported ...

He built a plantation about 30 miles upstream from Jamestown, and for the first time, the colony was ... a cruel foil to the foundation of slavery established the same year. Women were recruited ...

The first slaves – 20 Africans - arrived on a Dutch ship around1619 to the Virginia colony at Jamestown. The demand for slaves grew quickly, fuelled by the New World’s growing agricultural ...

But a few months later slavery was established in the new ... remains of Sir George Yeardley who presided over the first General Assembly Jamestown is not the only site on the list endangered ...