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1620s

1620–1629
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William Tucker, first African child born in English America

Son of two of the 1619 arrivals, baptized in Jamestown, the first documented child of African descent born in the English colonies.

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1624
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  1. 1624
    William Tucker, first African child born in English America

    Son of two of the 1619 arrivals, baptized in Jamestown, the first documented child of African descent born in the English colonies.

  2. 1624
    Queen Njinga's war against the slave trade

    Njinga takes the throne of Ndongo and wages a decades-long war against Portuguese slavers, a founding act of resistance in the homeland of many of America's first Africans.

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