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Where were the first enslaved Africans transported to and when in the English colonies ?

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First enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown, setting the stage for slavery in North America. On this day in 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of Virginia and are then bought by English colonists.

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