On This Day In TCXPI History – We Must Never Forget! Indentured Servants or Slaves? The First 20 Africans were brought from the West Indies to what would become Jamestown, Virginia aboard a Dutch ship, August 20, 1619. The Africans were traded for food and supplies as temporary indentured servants in the same way that English whites were owned as laborers in the New World. Their labor arrangement was for a specified period of time after which they were free to live their lives, just as the English laborers were. The permanent enslavement of Africans in America was implemented later. Sources: thewright.org/explore/blog/entry/today-in-black-history-8202012 encyclopediavirginia.org/Virginia_s_First_Africans washingtonpost/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/02/AR2006090201097.html
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:27:48 +0000
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