400 years ago, a ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived on the shores of Virginia. Thousands of people gathered at that same port this weekend to honor those Africans, who were instrumental to the founding of the United States.
Hampton, Virginia 400 years ago, a ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived in Point Comfort on the shores of Virginia. The landing marked the beginning of slavery in British North America, forever transforming the modern world.
Thousands of people gathered at that same port this weekend in what is now Hampton, Virginia, to honor those Africans, who were instrumental to the founding of the United States."It marks the beginning of the foundation of this nation, of which slavery is deeply embedded," said Asia Leeds, co-director of African diaspora studies at Spelman College."So we have the beginnings of not just US governing systems, right? They emerge out of this colonial history.
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