USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Native American slavery “is a piece of the history of slavery that has been glossed over, ” Fisher said. “Between 1492 and 1880, between 2 and 5.5 million Native Americans were enslaved in the Americas in addition to 12.5 million African slaves.”

Detailed explanation-2: -First enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown, setting the stage for slavery in North America. 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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The earliest populations in the Americas, before roughly 10, 000 years ago, are known as Paleo-Indians.

Detailed explanation-4: -By 1495, Christopher Columbus was in trouble. The riches he had imagined finding in Asia were not materializing in the New World, and the costs of his voyages were mounting. Sending indigenous people back to Europe as slaves became his solution.