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In 2019, Americans commemorated the four hundredth anniversary of the arrival of the first documented Africans in English America, who arrived in Virginia from Angola in August 1619. This momentous arrival, an event that inspired new scholarship on the meaning of our nation's origins and founding principles, as well as sparked a fierce controversy over the legacy of slavery. Based on the award-winning book, the Arrival of the First Africans in Virginia (2020), the documentary compacts and considers all the forces at play in this compelling complex story including: international politics d...

JAMESTOWN — Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation (JRF) is one of fourteen organizations selected to receive a grant from the Virginia Museum of History &

Forty years after receiving an anonymous tip, one man has been working to rewrite Black history to show where and how the first Africans arrived in the British Colonies.

Decades of excavation and research at Jamestown, America's first fully successful British colony, has shed new light on the beginnings of a nation.

It was back in May of 1607 when just over 100 Englishmen made land on the swampy shores of modern-day Virginia. They were sent to America under orders