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Women’s History – African American Slave Narratives
In 1619, the first slave ship arrived in what would later be known as America, into the settlement which became Jamestown, Virginia. On this ship were twenty African men and women who were the first African slaves in America. How these men and women felt, crossing the Atlantic and then settling into slavery in America, no one knows for sure. What we do know, is that soon after this began “the forcible deportation from Africa to mainland North America during [...]
