![]() ![]() ![]() In 1619, historian James Horn sheds new light on the year that gave birth to the great paradox of our nation: slavery in the midst of freedom. A few weeks later, a battered privateer entered the Chesapeake Bay carrying the first African slaves to land on mainland English America. In the newly built church at Jamestown, the General Assembly-the first gathering of a representative governing body in America-came together. An extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in handĪlong the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course of history. ![]()
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