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WHEN did the African slave trade begin in North America?

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1619

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Answer: 1619

Explanation: The first 19 or so Africans to reach the English colonies arrived in Point Comfort, Virginia, near Jamestown, in 1619, brought by English privateers who had seized them from a captured Portuguese slave ship.

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