Today is Saturday, August 20th, 2022.

On this day in 1619, more than 20 Africans kidnapped from their homeland, arrived in what is now Hampton, Virginia.

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For more information, go to amazon.com.uk.U.K.S.m., welcome to Today and True Crime, a Spotify original from Parcast. Due to the graphic nature of these crimes, listener discretion is advised. This episode includes discussions of slavery and racism. We advise extreme caution for children under 13. Today we're covering the arrival of at least 20 Africans on the shores of

Virginia. It marked the beginnings of slavery in England's North American colonies. Now let's go back

to Point Comfort in what was then the British colony of Virginia on August 20th, 1619. The White Lion, an English ship, drifted into the port's docks.

On board were about 20 men and women who'd been violently abducted from their homes in the kingdom of

Ndongo in Angola. After disembarking, the English met with George Yardley, the governor of the colony

of Virginia. They told them they were in desperate need of food and supplies, but they didn't

have the money to pay for it. Instead, the crew sold the men and women to Yardley for the price of some provisions.

Slavery wasn't anything new for European countries.

By that point, the Portuguese and Spanish had been abducting Africans

and transporting them to their colonies in South America and the Caribbean for nearly a century.

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