In 1917, he created this depiction of the 1619 arrival of Virginia's first ... are negotiating a trade with the Jamestown settlers for food. No record of the ship's name was made at the time.

We in English-speaking America sometimes think of them as the first slaves in Jamestown in 1619. But there had been many Africans in North America before that, traveling with the Spanish explorers ...

Sometime in August 1619, the first Africans in the English colonies arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, just a few miles away from what would become the College of William and Mary, founded in 1693 as a ...