THE ARRIVAL IN THE BRITISH COLONY OF VIRGINIA IN AUGUST | VOA 2019 marks the 400th anniversary since the first enslaved Africans set foot in what is now the United States. The arrival in the British colony of Virginia in August, 1619 of a ship carrying Africans from Angola marked the start of more than 200 years of slavery in America.
VOA’s Chris Simkins reported from Virginia and Rhode Island, with Mayra de Lasalette contributing from Angola.
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