Search Engine WEB writes “They were known as the “20 and odd,” the first African slaves to set foot in North America at the English colony settled in 1607.
The slaves were herded onto a Portuguese slave ship in Angola, in Southwest Africa. The ship was seized by British pirates on the high seas — not brought to Virginia after a period of time in the Caribbean. The slaves represented one ethnic group, not many, as historians first believed.
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