GDG- MSNBC.com Article: Mystery of Va.'s first slaves is unlocked

Marian Latimer campcanine at centurytel.net
Sun Sep 3 09:03:56 CDT 2006


Somewhat off-topic...
Marian

Mystery of Va.'s first slaves is unlocked
For nearly 400 years, historians believed the first slaves to set foot in 
North America were transported to Virginia from the West Indies on a Dutch 
warship._ But new scholarship and detective work have solved the puzzle of 
who they were and where their journey began.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14646479/from/ET/ 



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