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Slavery’s Bitter Roots: US Marks 400th Anniversary of Arrival of First Africans.
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Slavery's Bitter Roots: US Marks 400th Anniversary of Arrival of First Africans
In late August 1619, an English pirate ship named the White Lion sailed into the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and anchored at Point Comfort. It deposited, according to handwritten records, "20 and ...