Monthly Theme: Commemorating 400 Years of African American History
Monthly Theme: Commemorating 400 Years of African American History
The first enslaved Africans in English-occupied North America were brought to Virginia more than 400 years ago. Despite constant adversity throughout American history, African American culture and heritage strengthened each generation.
In 2019 and 2020, the National Park Service is commemorating a significant moment in American history: the landing of the first enslaved Africans in English-occupied North America and 400 years of African American history that followed. While this was not the first instance of African enslavement in North America (see, for example, Coronado National Memorial’s story of Esteban de Dorantes, an enslaved member of the Coronado Expedition), it marked the origin of what would become the institutional system of chattel slavery in the English colonies and the United States.
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The first enslaved Africans in English-occupied North America were brought to Virginia more than 400 years ago. Despite constant adversity throughout American history, African American culture and heritage strengthened each generation.
In 2019 and 2020, the National Park Service is commemorating a significant moment in American history: the landing of the first enslaved Africans in English-occupied North America and 400 years of African American history that followed. While this was not the first instance of African enslavement in North America (see, for example, Coronado National Memorial’s story of Esteban de Dorantes, an enslaved member of the Coronado Expedition), it marked the origin of what would become the institutional system of chattel slavery in the English colonies and the United States.
READ MORE: https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/news/february-...
