What the records say
- When
- 1619
- Kind
- Expulsion or deportation
- Coordinates
- 8.84° S, 13.23° E
- Description
- 1619 arrival of the first slaves in the British North American colonies that would be the United States
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Placed at the start of its route.
First Africans in Virginia
1619 arrival of the first slaves in the North American British colonies
The first Africans in Virginia were a group of "twenty and odd" captive persons, from the Mbundu ethnic group in modern-day Angola, who landed in the Colony of Virginia at Old Point Comfort in Hampton, Virginia in late August 1619 after their 11-week journey.
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- Wikidata: expulsions and deportationsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A group of "twenty and odd" enslaved Africans, onboard the privateer ship White Lion (the first in the state of Virginia)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un bateau hollandais transporte les premiers esclaves noirs vers la colonie de Virginie”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page