Africa






 * The first Africans in English America arrived in the summer of 1619.
 * They had been carried on a Portuguese slave ship sailing from Angola to Veracruz, Mexico.
 * More than 20 of the African captives were sold for food.
 * The first Africans in America arrived as Indentured Servants.
 * From 1619 to about 1640, Africans could earn their freedom working as laborers and artisans for the European settlers.
 * In 1640, Maryland became the first colony to institutionalize slavery.

