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 ...

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 ...