Nasty Letters To Crooked Politicians

As we enter a new era of politics, we hope to see that Obama has the courage to fight the policies that Progressives hate. Will he have the fortitude to turn the economic future of America to help the working man? Or will he turn out to be just a pawn of big money, as he seems to be right now.

Saturday, August 20, 2005

This Day in History

First slaves brought to Jamestown, Virginia

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1619: Slaves, it is thought, were first brought to the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, on this day. Subsequently Africans were transshipped to North America from the Caribbean in increasing numbers. Initially, however, the English colonists relied for their dependent labour primarily on indentured servants from the mother country. In the 1660s and '70s the laws of slave ownership were clarified (for example, Africans who converted to Christianity did no longer have to be manumitted), and the price of servants may have increased because of rising wage rates in prospering England; soon thereafter African slaves replaced English indentured labourers.

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