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This episode examines the arrival of the first Africans – Angolans, specifically – in English North America on a privateer called the White Lion. We look at the much-debated status of the new arrivals, the circumstances of their arrival, their origins in Angola under unbelievably brutal conditions, their treatment in American history over the last 145 years, and their significance in the History of the Americans.
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Selected references for this episode
James Horn, 1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
John Thornton, “The African Experience of the “20. and Odd Negroes” Arriving in Virginia in 1619,” The William and Mary Quarterly, June 1998
George Bancroft, History Of The United States Of America
Carl Degler, Out of Our Past
Jill LePore, These Truths
McCartney, Martha. “Africans, Virginia’s First” Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities, (22 Mar. 2022). Web. 28 Jun. 2022
“Here Come The Bridges” Theme Song
Independence Day (Alien scene)
