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In reply to the discussion: Gov. Ralph Northam Calls Slaves 'Indentured Servants' In Interview, Gets Corrected [View all]BumRushDaShow
(128,889 posts)68. To supplement your post
I posted this in a different thread - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11808552
Info from the historic Jamestown website -
The first Africans arrived in Virginia because of the transatlantic slave trade. Across three and a half centuriesfrom 1501 to 1867more than 12.5 million Africans were captured, sold, and transported to the Americas. While Portugal and Spain were the first European powers engaged in this trade, eventually most of the European powers would get involved. It was as profitable as it was brutal.
The Africans who came to Virginia in 1619 had been taken from Angola in West Central Africa. They were captured in a series of wars that was part of much broader Portuguese hostilities against the Kongo and Ndongo kingdoms, and other states. These captives were then forced to march 100-200 miles to the coast to the major slave-trade port of Luanda. They were put on board the San Juan Bautista, which carried 350 captives bound for Vera Cruz, on the coast of Mexico, in the summer of 1619.
Nearing her destination, the slave ship was attacked by two English privateers, the White Lion and the Treasurer, in the Gulf of Mexico and robbed of 50-60 Africans. The two privateers then sailed to Virginia where the White Lion arrived at Point Comfort, or present-day Hampton, Virginia, toward the end of August. John Rolfe, a prominent planter and merchant (and formerly the husband of Pocahontas), reported that 20. and odd Negroes were bought for victuals, (italics added). The majority of the Angolans were acquired by wealthy and well-connected English planters including Governor Sir George Yeardley and the cape, or head, merchant, Abraham Piersey. The Africans were sold into bondage despite Virginia having no clear-cut laws sanctioning slavery.
The Treasurer arrived at Point Comfort a few days after the White Lion but did not stay long, quickly setting sail for the English colony of Bermuda. Prior to leaving port, however, it is possible that 7 to 9 Africans were sold, including a woman named Angelo (Angela) who was taken to Lieutenant William Pierces Jamestown property, which is currently being excavated. By March 1620, 32 Africans were recorded in a muster as living in Virginia but by 1625 only 23 were recorded. These Africans, scattered throughout homes and farms of the James River Valley, were the first of hundreds of thousands of Africans forced to endure slavery in colonial British America.
https://historicjamestowne.org/history/the-first-africans/
The Africans who came to Virginia in 1619 had been taken from Angola in West Central Africa. They were captured in a series of wars that was part of much broader Portuguese hostilities against the Kongo and Ndongo kingdoms, and other states. These captives were then forced to march 100-200 miles to the coast to the major slave-trade port of Luanda. They were put on board the San Juan Bautista, which carried 350 captives bound for Vera Cruz, on the coast of Mexico, in the summer of 1619.
Nearing her destination, the slave ship was attacked by two English privateers, the White Lion and the Treasurer, in the Gulf of Mexico and robbed of 50-60 Africans. The two privateers then sailed to Virginia where the White Lion arrived at Point Comfort, or present-day Hampton, Virginia, toward the end of August. John Rolfe, a prominent planter and merchant (and formerly the husband of Pocahontas), reported that 20. and odd Negroes were bought for victuals, (italics added). The majority of the Angolans were acquired by wealthy and well-connected English planters including Governor Sir George Yeardley and the cape, or head, merchant, Abraham Piersey. The Africans were sold into bondage despite Virginia having no clear-cut laws sanctioning slavery.
The Treasurer arrived at Point Comfort a few days after the White Lion but did not stay long, quickly setting sail for the English colony of Bermuda. Prior to leaving port, however, it is possible that 7 to 9 Africans were sold, including a woman named Angelo (Angela) who was taken to Lieutenant William Pierces Jamestown property, which is currently being excavated. By March 1620, 32 Africans were recorded in a muster as living in Virginia but by 1625 only 23 were recorded. These Africans, scattered throughout homes and farms of the James River Valley, were the first of hundreds of thousands of Africans forced to endure slavery in colonial British America.
https://historicjamestowne.org/history/the-first-africans/
Main website - https://historicjamestowne.org/
The "About" for the above website is here - https://historicjamestowne.org/about/ (yes this is run by foundations and the National Park Service)
I remember some years ago reading articles about the excavations that have been going on at the original location of the settlement as it had been actually flooded out by the James River. I believe they did actually find some building foundations within an area of exactly where it was.
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Gov. Ralph Northam Calls Slaves 'Indentured Servants' In Interview, Gets Corrected [View all]
marble falls
Feb 2019
OP
That was an aberation that was corrected tout suite and not in the "indenture slaves" interest ...
marble falls
Feb 2019
#17
Oh God. I voted for him. Is it too much to ask for those we elect to at least have common sense.
rusty quoin
Feb 2019
#2
Yes, this reference made perfect sense as part of a conversation about his use of blackface
EffieBlack
Feb 2019
#50
What do indentured servants have to do with blackface and the KKK, the topic he was discussing?
EffieBlack
Feb 2019
#51
You had forward thinking teachers. My teachers were good, but played things close to the vest.
Blue_true
Feb 2019
#65
He may have been technically accurate in saying some Africans were indentured servants
EffieBlack
Feb 2019
#52
It's difficult to reconcile his attending desegregated schools with black students and the racist
EffieBlack
Feb 2019
#66
Thats the way its supposed to be: You repent, you atone, you go and sin no more.
marble falls
Feb 2019
#28
What he doesn't realize about those 1619 "indentured" slaves is that they were brought in ...
marble falls
Feb 2019
#58
I think he believes his less than facile tongue will somehow talk all this away. Instead ...
marble falls
Feb 2019
#59