USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -By 1619, more than a century and a half after the Portuguese first traded slaves on the African coast, European ships had brought a million Africans to colonies and plantations in the Americas and force them to labor as slaves.

Detailed explanation-2: -Beginning in the 16th century and for centuries after, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Dutch traders systematically purchased large numbers of African people, many of whom had been captured by the traders’ African allies in wars or in raids, and transported them to the American colonies for permanent enslavement.

Detailed explanation-3: -On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of Virginia and are then bought by English colonists. The arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World marks a beginning of two and a half centuries of slavery in North America.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Spanish were among the first Europeans to explore the New World and the first to settle in what is now the United States.

Detailed explanation-5: -The arrival of the first captives to the Jamestown Colony, in 1619, is often seen as the beginning of slavery in America-but enslaved Africans arrived in North America as early as the 1500s.