This date marks the fullfillment of biblical prophecy as it pertains to us so called black folks or the Hebrews. The black people that came off the boat came from some tribes that include Yoruba, Igbo, Ashanti etc.....
Left a book called "Hebrewism of West Africa".
Time to wake up and get back to following the God of Abraham Issac and Jacob.
*[[Deu 28:68]] KJV* And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
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*[[Deu 28:49]] KJV* The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
Left a book called "Hebrewism of West Africa".
Time to wake up and get back to following the God of Abraham Issac and Jacob.
*[[Deu 28:68]] KJV* And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
On or about August 20, 1619, Africans—kidnapped from their homelands and brought to British North America—were brought be force to Point Comfort, part of today’s Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia. Since 2010, the city of Hampton and several organizations, including Project 1619, have observed an annual African Landing Commemoration Day.
The name of the Point Comfort landing place was just one of the great and bitter ironies of the August 1619 disembarkation, which led to the establishment of the British trans-Atlantic slave trade, as well as slavery itself in the British colonies, and, subsequently, in the United States.
The Point Comfort name derived from the first English settlers finding “comfort” on this point of land in 1607. But in 1619, the “20 and odd” Africans were inhumanely traded like chattel by the captain of the ship White Lion to Virginia’s colonial Governor George Yeardley and merchant Abraham Peirsey, and dispersed to several other locations. Another irony was that 1619 also was the year that a semblance of democracy came to Virginia, as the colony held its first election for the inaugural House of Burgesses, the forerunner of today’s Virginia General Assembly.
Marker about the First Africans in America.
According to various histories, the Africans were part of a contingent of about 350 enslaved Africans from the Portuguese colony of Angola, captured from the kingdom of Ndongo in west central Africa. The Portuguese took the Africans aboard the São João Bautista, which was to sail to Vera Cruz, Mexico, but was attacked by the White Lion and another English vessel, the Treasurer.
Hampton History Museum curator Allen Hoilman said,
The Angolans that were brought here came from a vibrant, sophisticated civilization. If they survived that terrible voyage, they would have been brought to this culture that is barely surviving and hanging on.
Historians still debate whether these first Africans were slaves or indentured servants, but as Howard Zinn points out in A People’s History of the United States, “it would have been strange if those twenty blacks, forcibly transported … and sold as objects to settlers anxious for a steadfast source of labor, were considered as anything but slaves.” The next few decades, however, would see the continual codification of laws governing enslavement.
The cruelties of slavery mounted and included the use of slave labor to help the U.S. Army build the massive Fort Monroe between 1819 and 1834 as a strategic bastion, at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, to protect America’s liberty against foreign invaders. In another twist of history, Fort Monroe became known as “Freedom’s Fortress” during the Civil War because Union Major General Benjamin F. Butler welcomed thousands of runaway slaves, declared them “contraband of war” and refused to return them to the Confederate plantations. Fort Monroe became part of the National Park Service in 2011.
“This Day in History” story and photo submitted by Michael Knepler.
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Through a mixer activity, students are introduced to the various ways that enslaved people resisted the brutal exploitation of slavery. The lesson culminates in a collective class poem highlighting the defiance of the enslaved.
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Presidents and the Enslaved: Helping Students Find the Truth
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TEACHING GUIDES
Teaching a People’s History of Abolition and the Civil War
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Students will discover the real abolition story, one about some of the most significant grassroots social movements in U.S. history.
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BOOKS: NON-FICTION
Flight from the Devil: Six Slave Narratives
Book – Non-fiction. Compiled and with an introduction by William Loren Katz. 1996.
Six narratives by people who were enslaved that helped expose the horrors of slavery and advance the fight for abolition.
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Growing Up in Slavery: Stories of Young Slaves as Told by Themselves
Book – Non-fiction. Edited by Yuval Taylor. 2005.
Ten individuals tell stories of their childhood and teenage years in slavery.
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Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery
Website.
A companion site to the PBS documentary on the origins and legacy of American slavery, including episodes on the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.
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