This year, 2019, marks 400 years since the arrival of the first 20 Africans to North America’s shores. They arrived at Jamestown, VA, in 1619 and were sold into slavery. And from that time until 1866, 12.5 million more Africans were shipped to the New World (10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage), disembarking in […]
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