How did slavery begin in 1619???

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Rgfvfk Iff · Answer 1 · 2020-09-07T22:00:22+0000

The first 19 or so Africans to reach the English colonies arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, brought by English privateers who had seized them from a captured Portuguese slave ship. Slaves were usually baptized in Africa before embarking.

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