I don't think anything in the article is a contradiction to what we've learned, but it does help to clarify some things and bring entirely new things to light. I was very suprised to learn that African peoples had converted to Christianity before they were enslaved. It's pretty sad that one of the major "justifications" for slavery was Christianizing people, and here it turns out they were already Christians. I was also suprised that anything significant could be found in the way of documents. Its just a testament to bureaucracy. And who knew there were pirates in Virginia before there were slaves? I wonder how long the pirates had been operating off North America when Jamestown was founded. As sad as it is, without slavery, America as we know it wouldn't exist. Much of the 18th century's economy was made with slave labor. The southern colonies might have folded if it weren't for slavery.