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1619

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  1. August 20, 1619· debated
    "20 and odd" Africans arrive at Point Comfort

    An English privateer trades roughly two dozen captive Angolans to Virginia colonists at Old Point Comfort — a foundational moment whose exact legal status (enslaved vs. indentured) historians still debate.

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