Tag: Association for the Study of African Life and History
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, D Kevin McNeir

First Steps of Blacks on American Soil Touted as 1619

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The D.C.-based Association for the Study of African Life and History (ASALH) has launched its first public event in a yearlong commemoration of the forced migration of Africans to Jamestown, one of the first, successful British colonies established in Virginia in 1619, with discussions on the meaning of the year and its relevance throughout the centuries.

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