A privateer delivered captive Africans to Point Comfort in August 1619, where colonists exchanged food for them. This often-cited arrival is not the beginning of African presence in the Americas, nor the beginning of slavery there; it is one documented moment in the development of English mainland Virginia’s racialized labor regime. The surviving evidence supports the month, not a settled day.
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Why is 1619 not the beginning of African presence or slavery in the Americas?
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The event is one documented moment in a much longer Atlantic history.
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