The year 1619 was memorable in the history of the colony of Virginia and ultimately the United States. During a four-to five-week span — July through August — two momentous events took place: the ...

Call me the 1617 Project. Yep, that’s the year my first ancestor born on these then-wild and woolly shores saw the light of day in the touch and go environment of the Jamestown Colony. Advertisement ...

In August 1619, a pirate ship, the White Lion, stopped at Jamestown and traded 20-some captive Africans for food. The Africans were treated as indentured servants and soon released. Fifteen months ...

No one knows much about Angelo, an African woman sold into slavery in Hampton in 1619 and taken to Jamestown. Her English first name — an incorrect masculine spelling of “Angela” — appears only in the ...

It was 400 years ago, “about the latter end of August,” that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia peninsula. There, Governor George Yeardley and his head of trade, Cape ...

“All of that,” marveled historian James Horn, president of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation, “before she is put aboard the Treasurer,” one of two British privateers that delivered the first ...

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It’s reasonable to assume that 1619 is not a date that looms large in the historical consciousness of most Americans. A year before the pilgrims of Plymouth, two decades before Massachusetts, and more ...

In 1619, “20. and odd Negroes” arrived off the coast of Virginia, where they were “bought for victualle” by labor-hungry English colonists. The story of these captive Africans has set the stage for ...