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It is odd, 400 years after the first slaves arrived from Africa, we have a few paranoid white people frothing over their fearful musings that somehow they might face a 'white genocide'. Some parrot fools like Paul Crank Roberts, without looking to see if any of his make believe notions have any real truth to them...
Anywho, a good article on its starting history, noting that there were slaves earlier in South Carolina, but the site was quickly abandoned:
https://www.france24.com/en/2019081...0-years-anniversary-virginia-birth-white-lion
Anywho, a good article on its starting history, noting that there were slaves earlier in South Carolina, but the site was quickly abandoned:
https://www.france24.com/en/2019081...0-years-anniversary-virginia-birth-white-lion
Just along the boardwalk in Virginia's seaside town of Hampton – once known as Point Comfort – stands a stark plaque. It reads: “The first documented Africans in Virginia arrived here in Aug. 1619 on the White Lion, an English privateer based in the Netherlands.”
Four hundred years ago, the ship dropped anchor in what was then a British colony. John Rolfe, the plantation owner and official overseeing the colony (who is perhaps best remembered for marrying Pocahontas), noted that it “brought not anything but 20 and odd Negroes”.