I don't think this article condradicts anything that I have previously learned. This could be because we never really learned how the African slaves got here, so this article just gave alot of insite to that. I would've never guessed that the way they first landed in Virginia would've been by the means of pirates, but it actually makes alot of sense. The Virginia colonies would've probably not been as successful in the tobacco field, without the use of slaves there would be very scarce cheap labor. I also beileve that it took 400 years to figure this out because, there are so many different things going on in the world at this time. Since pirates were often robbing ships it didn't really seem like such a big deal that they would rob a slave boat, but just to think that they would start the slave movement in the U.S. is mind boggling.
posted by Abbie L | 5:09 PM
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I agree. I don't think that this article contradicts anything that we've learned in history so far. I think that this article just adds on to what we've already learned. I think it's interesting that researchers are still learning things 400 years later, and that pirates actually robbed slave boats, not just for "treasure". I agree that it's really interesting and sort of disturbing in a way that the slave trade started in the United States.
-Melanie
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