White Lion (ship)
The ''White Lion'' was an English privateer operating under a Dutch letter of marque which brought the first Africans to the English colony of Virginia in 1619, a year before the arrival of the ''Mayflower'' in New England. Though the African captives were sold as indentured servants, the event is regarded as the start of African slavery in the colonial history of the United States. Many Native-American tribes practiced some form of slavery before the European introduction of African slavery into North America. Native Americans did not buy and sell captives in the pre-colonial era, although they sometimes exchanged enslaved individuals with other tribes in exchange for redeeming their own members. In some cases, Native American slaves were allowed to live on the fringes of Native American society until they were slowly integrated into the tribe. The word "slave" may not accurately apply to such captive people. The first enslaved Africans in the current boundaries of the United ...
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