We in English-speaking America sometimes think of them as the first slaves in Jamestown in 1619. But there had been many Africans in North America before that, traveling with the Spanish explorers ...

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 ...

We all knew that 1619 was the year the first enslaved Africans were brought to the British colonies of North America. And ...

Were they the first slaves taken to the Americas? Some experts say the significance of 1619 should not be over-emphasised because, by then, Africans were already being used on tobacco plantations ...

They stood on a concrete platform over a cobblestone plaza as slave traders cast their final judgment, gazing westward at a ...