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In 1619, it came to the English<br />
colony of Virginia. The San<br />
Juan Bautista, a Spanish ship<br />
transporting enslaved Africans,<br />
that was bound for Mexico<br />
when it was attacked by the<br />
White Lion and another privateer,<br />
the Treasurer, and forced<br />
to surrender its African prisoners.<br />
To the us ..<br />
This was the biggest forced<br />
migration of people in world<br />
history –aka The Transatlantic<br />
Slave trade, was already well<br />
under way in the Caribbean<br />
and Latin America.<br />
The captain of the White Lion, John<br />
Jope, traded the captives to Virginians<br />
in return for food and supplies. They<br />
were taken into servitude in nearby<br />
homes and plantations, their skills as<br />
farmers in the daily struggle to survive.<br />
Slavery as we know it in America<br />
was born
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