The first Africans brought to Colonial America on English occupied territory came ashore at Point Comfort, today's Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia. They were later transported to plantations including Jamestown. The White Lion, an English ship flying a Dutch Flag brought the first Africans to Virginia in August of 1619. The fist enslaved Africans were considered indentured servants but in 1661 the Virginia House of Burgess declared Africans to be slaves for life.
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The first Africans brought to Colonial America on English occupied territory came ashore at Point Comfort, today's Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia. They were later transported to plantations including Jamestown. The White Lion, an English ship flying a Dutch Flag brought the first Africans to Virginia in August of 1619. The fist enslaved Africans were considered indentured servants but in 1661 the Virginia House of Burgess declared Africans to be slaves for life.
They needed people to work in the cotton and sugar fields. Save
Slavery stated in Jamestown in 1620.
1900s
well slavery beginned in colonial America because in 1619 1700 that slavery became the main labor force in the southern colonies the development of the cotton and tobacco crop as a major profit crop saw the increase of that peculiar instituition as the plantation system was developed to grow more and more cotton and tobacco
there would be no blacks in america