First Enslaved Africans Arrive in Virginia, Beginning Atlantic Slave Trade in British North America
The English privateer ship White Lion arrives at Point Comfort in Hampton, Virginia in late August carrying “twenty and odd” captive Africans originally from modern-day Angola. According to a letter by colony secretary John Rolfe, Governor Sir George Yeardley and head merchant Abraham …
Virginia Colony
Sir George Yeardley
Abraham Peirsey
White Lion privateers
Enslaved Angolans
slavery
institutional-corruption
atlantic-slave-trade
colonial-economy
labor-exploitation
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