by familyvoices | Jan 20, 2020 | FamU, FamU - BC - From Africa to Virginia
First Enslaved Africans On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of Virginia and are then bought by English colonists. The arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World marks a beginning of two and a half...
by familyvoices | Jan 19, 2020 | FamU - BC - From Africa to Virginia
The 1619 Project On August of 1619, a ship appeared on this horizon, near Point Comfort, a coastal port in the English colony of Virginia. It carried more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold to the colonists. No aspect of the country that would be formed here has...
by familyvoices | Jan 18, 2020 | FamU - BC - From Africa to Virginia
The 1619 Podcast “1619” is a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. In August of 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. America was not yet America, but this was the moment it began. No...
by familyvoices | Jan 17, 2020 | FamU - BC - From Africa to Virginia
Life Aboard a Slave Ship From approximately 1525 to 1866, 12.5 million Africans were forcibly transported across the Middle Passage to serve as slaves in the New World. Life aboard slave ships was agonizing and dangerous; nearly 2 million slaves would perish on their...
by familyvoices | Jan 16, 2020 | FamU - BC - From Africa to Virginia
The Middle Passage Of the 12.5 million Africans loaded onto 35,000 Atlantic ships by American and European slave traders, few left personal written accounts of their ordeal. Some of their life experiences were described as entries in the voluminous commercial papers...
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