Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • In August 1619,

  • a ship appeared on this horizon,

  • near Point Comfort, Virginia.

  • It carried more than

  • 20 enslaved Africans,

  • who were sold to the colonists.

  • No aspect of the country

  • we know today has been

  • untouched

  • by the slavery that followed.

  • America was not yet America,

  • but this

  • was the moment it began.

In August 1619,

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it