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.
Reframing US history around the consequences of slavery.
Research on the White Lion's arrival at Point Comfort and the first recorded Africans.
Scholarship on the 1619 Point Comfort landing and its contested history.
How the federal government frames the 1619 Point Comfort arrival.