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Subject: [KYBRECKI] Article about first African slaves in America -Washington Post
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:38:40 -0000

A great article in today’s Washington Post

By Lisa Rein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 3, 2006; Page A01
JAMESTOWN -- They were known as the "20 and odd," the first African slaves
to set foot in North America at the English colony settled in 1607.
For nearly 400 years, historians believed they were transported to Virginia
from the West Indies on a Dutch warship. Little else was known of the
Africans, who left no trace.
Now, new scholarship and transatlantic detective work have solved the puzzle
of who they were and where their forced journey across the Atlantic Ocean
began.
The slaves were herded onto a Portuguese slave ship in Angola, in Southwest
Africa. The ship was seized by British pirates on the high seas -- not
brought to Virginia after a period of time in the Caribbean. The slaves
represented one ethnic group, not many, as historians first believed….
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/02/AR200609020
1097.html>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/02/AR2006090201
097.html

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