By Shelby Stewart ·Updated October 24, 2024
The impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade is still being felt across the world today, and it’s important to not look at the enslavement of Black people in a linear, monolithic way, but from a global context. According to Bayyinah S. Jefffries, the author of Race and Racism in Bermuda, the country of Bermuda was not only the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, prior to Virginia, but also the earliest colony to engage in importing enslaved Africans. The first Africans arrived in Bermuda in 1612, and the first recorded Africans arrived in English North America in 1619. So, there’s a rich, yet little known history of
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