400 years ago, the first slave ship arrived in the English colonies that would become the U.S. For one family, the moment has come to feel intensely personal.
He was born in 1624, five years after his parents, Antoney and Isabella, arrived in this port city on a ship with 18 other Africans — the first slaves in the English colonies that would become the United States.
Most of the graves are unmarked, a fact that both sustains her belief and complicates her efforts to prove it. Despite the uncertainty, the story has gained widespread acceptance in the local area. Cope was 9 when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. She went to a segregated elementary school, and her seventh-grade class was the first at Jefferson Davis Middle School to be integrated. Kids threw rocks at her bus the first day of school.up a grassy alley at 1 Sharon Court — was always a part of her life.Her family would gather there for funerals and pray over the graves of great-grandparents and great-aunts and -uncles.
William Jones Jr. walks the grounds of the family's cemetery, looking for stones that mark suspected grave sites. Potential grave sites detected by radar have been marked with small white stones. Sites that are confirmed as graves are marked with white crosses. Then six years ago, the Hampton mayor called out the Tuckers in the local newspaper, saying the grounds were “deplorable” and needed rescue.
“People have moved away,” Cope said. “My son has been to one funeral at the cemetery, and didn’t go there growing up.” On paper, the family has traced itself back to the early 19th century and Samuel and Millie Tucker, two slaves near Hampton who were Cope’s great-great-great grandparents.“We know a lot about the place the first Africans came from and how they got here,” said Beth Austin, the registrar of the Hampton History Museum, which has documented the 1619 landing. “But we know so little about them as people and what happened to their families.
Offers have come in to exhume the bodies for study. Some Tuckers entertained the idea. Most rejected it.
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