2019 marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to the shores of Colonial North America. A lot has happened for African Americans since that dark chapter in American history. VOA’s Julie Taboh caught up with father and son artists who are commemorating the anniversary with a unique project.
Esha Sarai went to Accra to speak with some of the people bridging the gap between the continents.
In 1619, the first Africans were brought to colonial Virginia – in bondage – beginning more than two centuries of slavery in America
In Angola, young people people are learning about the history of the slave trade in the classroom, as VOA’s Mayra de Lassalette and Betty Ayoub found when they traveled to the African nation. Mayra de Lassalette narrates their report.
VOA’s Mayra de Lassalette and Betty Ayoub traveled to Angola where they heard accounts of the fierce resistance to the slave trade.
The arrival in the British colony of Virginia in August 1619 of a ship carrying Africans from Angola marked the start of more than 200 years of slavery in America.
How some African Americans are preserving the history of their ancestors to better understand how they contributed to building a new nation
August marks 400th anniversary of landing of first enslaved Africans in US
Scars remain centuries after the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia
The story of the trans-Atlantic slave trade began in the 1500s, with the shipment of Africans to early European colonies in the Americas.
