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August 20th

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  1. 1619
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    First enslaved Africans arrive at Point Comfort

    The English privateer White Lion arrives at Point Comfort, Virginia, carrying roughly twenty Africans taken from a Portuguese slave ship. The colonial governor records them as purchased in exchange for provisions, the first documented sale of Africans in the English North American colonies.

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