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.
