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 ...

In 1917, he created this depiction of the 1619 arrival of Virginia's first blacks ... are negotiating a trade with the Jamestown settlers for food. No record of the ship's name was made at ...

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 ...

Were they the first slaves taken to the Americas ... President Donald Trump, meanwhile, was in Jamestown, Virginia, this week to mark another anniversary - 400 years since the birth of ...