That ship was en route to the Spanish colony of Veracruz when two English privateer ships, the White Lion and the Treasurer, intercepted it and seized some of the Angolans on board.
Rich was anti-Spanish and anti-Catholic, and profited from thwarting Spanish shipping in the Caribbean. The White Lion — which flew under the flag of a Dutch port known for its pirates — came to Virginia first in late August , followed four days later by the Treasurer. Historians do not know much about the men and women who were sold to Yeardley and Piersey, or what happened to them, though some of their names have been revealed.
For example, as historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. Nor is it the case that those who arrived in were the first enslaved people in what would become the United States. In , for example, the Spanish brought enslaved Africans to present-day St. Augustine, Fla.
In , a Spanish expedition to present-day South Carolina was thwarted when the enslaved Africans aboard resisted. After the marriage between Pocahontas and John Rolfe, there was peace between the English and the Powhatan people, but relations started to deteriorate after her death.
Those tensions would come to a head in a uprising , and later, the English sold their American Indian captives as slaves to the British colonies in the West Indies to pay for their wars with Indigenous people on the East Coast, according to Spivey. The th anniversary being marked this month is really the th anniversary of the Anglo-centric history of Africans in the U. That said, something did change in Because of the central role of the English colonies in American history, the introduction of the transatlantic slave trade to Virginia is likewise central to this ugly and inescapable part of that story.
As the United States continues to grapple with the legacy of those centuries, archaeology is helping answer some of these questions. Excavations of plantations have turned up artifacts like handmade jewelry and pipes that shed light on the little-known personal lives of enslaved Africans. In the deep sea, a group of marine archaeologists called Diving With a Purpose is searching for wrecks of slave-carrying ships and parsing the stories of those transported across the Atlantic.
Four hundred years after those 20 Angolans arrived, little is known about the millions of enslaved people who shaped America's formative years.
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