Resurrecting the forgotten history of the first enslaved Africans in America
Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...
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It Was America’s First English Colony. Then It Was Gone.
Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians that ... the star-shaped symbol of a fort appeared under one patch. The location of the fort was just as startling ...
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
The fort, once completed ... around her death are considered suspicious by others. Though Jamestown and the Virginia Colony that grew from it had found financial success, it faced a difficult ...
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English saved by Native Americans
The reality of the new colony couldn't have been further from ... Soon after constructing the fort at Jamestown, two hundred Powhatan Indians unexpectedly attacked the new settlers, who had ...