When the first African Americans arrived in Virginia in 1619 what happened.

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Eileen Hensley

26 November, 08:31

When the first African Americans arrived in Virginia in 1619 what happened.

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Kelsie Shields · Answer 1

Kelsie Shields 26 November, 10:58

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they made him a slave

Tyrell Moses · Answer 2

In 1619 slave traders forced Africans to get on a slave ship, the White Lion, and took them to Virginia. The approximately 20 Africans on that ship, originally from the present-day Angola, had been seized by the British crew from a Portuguese slave ship, the "São João Bautista".