What Catholic Church records tell us about America's earliest black history
- Written by Jane Landers, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
David LaFevor, CC BY
For most Americans, black history begins in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought some “20 and odd Negroes” as slaves to the English colony of Jamestown, in Virginia.
Many are not aware that black history in the United States goes back at least a century before this date.
In 1513, a...
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