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In reply to the discussion: Gov. Ralph Northam Calls Slaves 'Indentured Servants' In Interview, Gets Corrected [View all]rogue emissary
(3,148 posts)60. Well PBS needs to go talk to Virginia state historians.
Hat tip to Lowell from Bluevirginia
Marker text: FIRST AFRICANS IN ENGLISH AMERICA
The first documented Africans in English America arrived at Jamestown in August 1619. A Dutch man-of-war captured them from the Spanish, who had enslaved them, and sold them to the Virginia colonists. The "twenty and odd" Africans, some of whom had been given Spanish names, may have been treated like indentured servants and later freed after their periods of servitude expired. From this beginning the institution of slavery evolved during the 17th century as the Virginia colonists extended the length of service for Africans from a fixed term to life. The United States abolished slavery in 1865.
Department of Historic Resources, 1992
The first documented Africans in English America arrived at Jamestown in August 1619. A Dutch man-of-war captured them from the Spanish, who had enslaved them, and sold them to the Virginia colonists. The "twenty and odd" Africans, some of whom had been given Spanish names, may have been treated like indentured servants and later freed after their periods of servitude expired. From this beginning the institution of slavery evolved during the 17th century as the Virginia colonists extended the length of service for Africans from a fixed term to life. The United States abolished slavery in 1865.
Department of Historic Resources, 1992
Notice the PBS site you continue to use says initially. While the Historical marker states may and highlights that those Africans were captured as slaves and sold to Virginians.
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Gov. Ralph Northam Calls Slaves 'Indentured Servants' In Interview, Gets Corrected [View all]
marble falls
Feb 2019
OP
That was an aberation that was corrected tout suite and not in the "indenture slaves" interest ...
marble falls
Feb 2019
#17
Oh God. I voted for him. Is it too much to ask for those we elect to at least have common sense.
rusty quoin
Feb 2019
#2
Yes, this reference made perfect sense as part of a conversation about his use of blackface
EffieBlack
Feb 2019
#50
What do indentured servants have to do with blackface and the KKK, the topic he was discussing?
EffieBlack
Feb 2019
#51
You had forward thinking teachers. My teachers were good, but played things close to the vest.
Blue_true
Feb 2019
#65
He may have been technically accurate in saying some Africans were indentured servants
EffieBlack
Feb 2019
#52
It's difficult to reconcile his attending desegregated schools with black students and the racist
EffieBlack
Feb 2019
#66
Thats the way its supposed to be: You repent, you atone, you go and sin no more.
marble falls
Feb 2019
#28
What he doesn't realize about those 1619 "indentured" slaves is that they were brought in ...
marble falls
Feb 2019
#58
I think he believes his less than facile tongue will somehow talk all this away. Instead ...
marble falls
Feb 2019
#59