Probably the Desire out of Salem Massachusetts.
Sir John Hawkins had the dubious honor of being the first British captain to dock a slave ship in the English colonies. The year was 1619 and the place was Jamestown, VA.
In 1441, the first slaves were brought to Portugal from northern Mauritania. ... By the year 1552 black African slaves made up 10 percent of the population of Lisbon. ... to the colonies in the British West Indies and British America. By the late 1500s slaves from Africa were brought to north America (Scientific American).
The Voyage For Africans was Painful And Tragic
I don't kow the answer. If an African sailor helped Columbus navigate the ship to America, do you know who he was?
it arrived in America in 1619.
1619
The Clotilde is regarded as the last "slave ship" to bring slaves to America from Africa. It sank in Mobile Bay (Mobile, Alabama).Other Slave Ships:Henrietta MarieWandererWildfireLord Ligonier
The first slave ship to arrive in America was the San Juan Bautista in 1526, carrying enslaved Africans to the Spanish colony of San Miguel de Guadalupe in present-day South Carolina.
The Mayflower in 1620
Ammistad
Probably the Desire out of Salem Massachusetts.
1859
Sir John Hawkins had the dubious distinction of becoming the first slave-ship captain to bring Africans to the Americas. His ship was called "the good ship Jesus".
Over 1000 slaves!
the middle passage.
Sir John Hawkins had the dubious honor of being the first British captain to dock a slave ship in the English colonies. The year was 1619 and the place was Jamestown, VA.