The first African Americans in the English colonies were brought to Jamestown.
the first African American in the colonies were brought to Plymouth rock by George Washington.
the first African Americans in the English colony were brought to Plymouth rock by George Washington.
The first African Americans to arrive in the English colonies were indentured servants. They were probably shocked when slavery became common soon after that.
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the first African Americans in the English colony were brought to Plymouth rock by George Washington.
I think that African-Americans were brought over on boats and were captured by the Europeans.
Many African Americans in the English colonies were indentured servants or slaves. Even free African Americans had to deal with discrimination and laws that reduced their rights compared to Caucasians.
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The first African Americans to arrive in the English colonies were indentured servants. They were probably shocked when slavery became common soon after that.
Native Americans were used as slaves by the Spanish in the southwest mines, but English colonies did not use Native Americans as slaves. The first African American slave arrived in 1619 to the Virginia colonies.
The first African slaves were brought to Virginia by the English in the 17th Century, but Spain probably had them in their American colonies earlier than that.
This is assuming you are discussing the English colonies. Generally, Africans were imported either from the Caribbean (former slaves brought over by the Spanish) or from West Africa either to work in the Caribbean (if they were brought over from Africa) to work in the sugar cane farms or to work in the English colonies (as Native Americans were not an adequate source for extra manual labor).
Africa and Europe
People of African descent, brought to Florida and Louisiana during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, learned to speak Spanish or French rather than English, and they became Roman Catholics rather than Protestants. In addition, the routes to freedom were more plentiful in the Spanish and French colonies than they were in Britain's plantation colonies.
All of the colonies had agricultural economies, although shipping was also important in some of them. Much of their population was of English descent, although African-Americans and Native Americans were other major groups.