four hundred and a score; the year 1619
Twenty Africans were brought to Jamestown to be sold into bondage, the first Africans brought to Britain's North American colonies.
The Virginia House of Burgesses was formed, thus creating a body to record and enforce contracts between servants and masters.
A ship load of women were brought in to be servants.
The Virginia House of Burgesses was formed, thus creating a body to record and enforce contracts between servants and masters.
A ship load of women were brought in to be servants.
The Africans were brought to Jamestown
to be sold, they were brought
Here on freedom's shores, they were bought
The House of Burgesses, founded atop
the very first institution
of subjugation; where is our humiliation?
We did not purchase a mystery from afar
We did it here.
We called them goods and pressed them into service
Almost worse, not to be sight unseen
to be conscious of it
These bodies, these hearts, before you. So mean