Sometime in August 1619, the first Africans in the English colonies arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, just a few miles away from what would become the College of William and Mary, founded in 1693 as a ...

Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement on the American continent. All Virginians, and most Americans, know that. For those who know the story of Jamestown, the basics of our introduction ...

A: The first people who come to Jamestown from Africa in a sense come as slaves. We're not sure whether they had been captured off a slave ship in the Caribbean or whether they'd been transported ...