![]() ![]() and odd Negroes” (from present-day Angola), who had been looted from a Portuguese slave ship, were quickly sold as slaves. According to Horn, “they were the first of approximately four hundred thousand enslaved men, women, and children forcibly transported to British mainland America and then the United States across two and a half centuries.” (p116)Īlthough the members of the Virginia Company were in the process of establishing the colony’s first General Assembly based on limited self-government, the “20. ![]() James Horn’s 1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy begins with the story of the battered English privateer, the White Lion, which brought to Jamestown, Virginia, the first enslaved African people documented to have arrived on the mainland of British North America in 1619. ![]()
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