Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles America\'s Settler colonialism\'s "creation myth" August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arrival of enslaved Africans occurred in North America.
The enslaved people here quickly defected to local Indigenous populations, and.
Yet in the 1520s, the Spanish, from their imperial perch in Santo Domingo, had already brought enslaved Africans to what was to become South Carolina.
Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles America\'s Settler colonialism\'s "creation myth" August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arrival of enslaved Africans occurred in North America