Well, "large" is pretty vague. However, the "20 and odd" Africans that were first brought to the English colonies of America were brought to Jamestown VA in 1607. For some years it was believed they were aboard a Dutch naval vessel, but it now appears it was an English Privateer, the White Lion, that had taken the slaves from a Portugese ship enroute to Mexico.
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The Slave Triangle
1859
Well, "large" is pretty vague. However, the "20 and odd" Africans that were first brought to the English colonies of America were brought to Jamestown VA in 1607. For some years it was believed they were aboard a Dutch naval vessel, but it now appears it was an English Privateer, the White Lion, that had taken the slaves from a Portugese ship enroute to Mexico.
it was the brtish sughuting
The name of the first slave will never be known. Most people don't know that before the explorers visited Africa and took slaves, Black Africans did in fact own slaves that were also black.