In 1917, he created this depiction of the 1619 arrival of Virginia's first blacks. In this image, the Dutch sailors, who have captured the blacks from a Spanish ship, are negotiating a trade with ...

A: The famous comment of John Wolf that in the summer of 1619 a Dutch man of war brought 20 Africans ... the social status of these first Africans to arrive in Virginia was very, very ambiguous ...

Bells across the country will toll Sunday afternoon as the National Park Service marks the 400th anniversary of the 1619 landing ... of the first slaves being brought to Virginia,” Gable said.