...slaves in the year 1619, is the following brief statement of Rolfe quoted by Smith : " About the last of August came in a Dutch man of warre that sold us twenty negars." ENGLISH GIRLS KIDNAPPED. 121 Is there not a probability that the vessel was under the control of Argall,...

...Rolfe, after speaking of events that occurred earlier in the year 1619, says (p. 126), " About the last of August came in a dutch man of warre that sold us twenty negars." The mistake of putting the date one year later was first made by Beverly, who wrote a history of Virginia,...

...introduction of negro slavery into the colony is thus noted by John Rolfe : " About the last of August [1619] came in a Dutch man of warre, that sold us twenty Negars." 1 During this year there were sent to the colony more than twelve hundred settlers, and one hundred...

..."About the last of August" (1619), says John Rolfe, the husband of Pocahontas, writing from Virginia, " came in a Dutch man of warre that sold us twenty Negars."" Neill states that the Dutch man of war, which claimed to sail under the commission of the Prince of...

..."About thé last of August" (1619), says John Rolfe, thé husband of Pocahontas, writing from Virginia, "came in a Dutch man of warre that sold us twenty Negars."" Neill states that thé Dutch man of war, which claimed to sail under thé commission of thé Prince...

...Le Garon in the Huron country. (See p. 64.) 1619. — In a Virginian record we read: About the last of August came in a Dutch man of warre, that sold us twenty negars. AFRICAN SLAVERY in America begins. First Popular Assembly of the colonists meets in Virginia. (See...

...years, as it did at Plymouth. After the event noted by John Rolfe : " about the last of August [1619] came in a Dutch man of warre that sold us twenty Negars," slavery was a continual and increasing curse, as is attested by the laws concerning slaves. It encouraged...

...years, as it did at Plymouth. After the event noted by John Eolfe : " about the last of August [1619] came in a Dutch man of warre that sold us twenty Negars," slavery was a continual and increasing curse, as is attested by the laws concerning slaves. It encouraged...

...years, as it did at Plymouth. After the event noted by John Rolfe : " about the last of August [1619] came in a Dutch man of warre that sold us twenty Negars," slavery was a continual and increasing curse, as is attested by the laws concerning slaves. It encouraged...

...posterity with a theme for moralizing. " About the last of August," says Secretary Rolfe, " [there] came in a Dutch man of warre that sold us twenty negars." A census taken five years later, however, shows only twenty-two negroes in the colony. The increase...