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August 20, 1619: First Enslaved Africans Arrive In Virginia

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More than 20 Africans, kidnapped from their homes in the Kingdom of Ndongo in Angola, arrived in what is now Hampton, Virginia, marking the beginnings of slavery in England's North American colonies.
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