This is just one example of African Americans’ complex and contested history, a history spanning 400 years. Even though they made history as the first Black residents of what would one day be the United States of America. Unlike the Pilgrims we learned about in school, these people don’t have names or stories. These captive people were sold as enslaved workers to Virginia’s colonists. Onboard was an English crew transporting around 24 Angola captives. These Pilgrim passengers’ names went down in history, and we still acknowledge their important role in shaping American history today.īut did you know there was another English ship that docked in Virginia just before that equally shaped the course of American History? It was the White Lion. Most American students can tell you the story of how the Pilgrims, some of the first non-native American settlers, arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*:
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