The question of the slave female community and culture in the American South: methodological and ideological approaches.

From: The Journal of African American History | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

It is not certain when the first black females came to reside in the mainland British colony of Virginia. In 1619, when a divided parcel of contraband enslaved Africans, probably Kimbundu-speakers from the Kingdom of Ndongo--who had been forced aboard the Sao Joao Bautista in Luanda and were on their way to Vera Cruz when they were pirated by a Dutch man-of-war and the British ship Treasurer--arrived at Point Comfort, thirty-two blacks already were living in the colony. (1) The two cargoes arriving in 1619 added a few women. When the Dutch ship finally docked in Virginia in ...

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