In 1492 the ‘Spanish’ the first
enslaved Indians in the ‘New World’!
On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd”
Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of
Virginia and are then bought by English colonists. The arrival of the
enslaved Africans in the New World marks a beginning of two and a half
centuries of slavery
in North America. Founded at Jamestown in
1607, the Virginia Colony was home to about 700 people by 1619. The first
enslaved Africans to arrive there disembarked at Point Comfort, in what is
today known as Hampton Roads. Most of their names, as well as the exact number
who remained at Point Comfort, have been lost to history, but much is known
about their journey.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-african-slave-ship-arrives-jamestown-colony
The Spanish Age of
Exploration began when Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492.
In 1494 all of the lands in
the New World were claimed by Spain and the Spanish
https://www.bing.com/search?q=what+year+did+the+spanish+come+to+america%3f&FORM=AWRE
The first Frenchman came to America 1524.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jacques-Cartier
The first Dutch
settlement in the Americas was founded in 1615: Fort
Nassau, on Castle
Island along the Hudson, near present-day Albany. The settlement
served mostly as an outpost for trading in fur with the native Lenape tribes
people, but was later replaced by Fort
Orange. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_colonization_of_the_Americas#:~:text=After%20some%20early%20trading%20expeditions%2C%20the%20first%20Dutch,tribespeople%2C%20but%20was%20later%20replaced%20by%20Fort%20Orange.
It was 400 years ago, “about the latter
end of August,” that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on
the Virginia peninsula. There, Governor George Yeardley and his head of trade,
Cape Merchant Abraham Piersey, bought the “20. and odd Negroes” aboard in
exchange for “victuals” — meaning, they traded food for slaves.
https://time.com/5653369/august-1619-jamestown-history/
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