America on the World Stage Teaching American History Grant What is the story of the Africans that arrived in Jamestown in 1619 and how did the descendants of these “20 and odd Africans” end up enslaved? Donna M. Shifflett Greene County Schools America on the World Stage Teaching American History Grant 2010

Slave-a person who works for no money and is owned by another person Indentured servant-a person who works for a certain number of years so that his or her ship’s passage will be paid. Slave-a person who works for no money and is owned by another person

Jamestown Landing-The arrival of the first Africans at Jamestown settlement.

When the Africans first arrived in the Jamestown settlement in 1619, were they indentured servants or slaves?

Perhaps Africans arrived as indentured servants, perhaps as slaves, but how did their descendants end up enslaved?

References for Primary Documents Slide 1: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cwnyhs:@field(DOCID+@lit(aa02038)) James Hopkinson's Plantation. Group going to field. Retrieved from Library of Congress. Slide 2: Definitions from Fourth grade textbook—need reference Slide 3: Adams, Daniel (1819). Map: The World. David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Collection. Boston: Lincoln and Edmands. Slide 4: Pyle, Howard (1917). Landing of Negroes at Jamestown from a Dutch Man-of-War, 1619 (Illustration). Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1h289.html Slide 5: ibid. Slide 6: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a20849/ The Africans of the slave bark "Wildfire"--The slave deck of the bark "Wildfire," brought into Key West on April 30, 1860. Retrieved from Library of Congress. Slide 7: References