A few weeks later, a battered privateer entered the Chesapeake Bay carrying the first African slaves to land on mainland English America. In the newly built church at Jamestown, the General Assembly - the first gathering of a representative governing body in America - came together. The essential history of the extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand in colonial Virginia.Īlong the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course of history.
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