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| Arrival of the First Africans Program |
| Saturday, August 2, 2008 |
| 2:00 p.m. |
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Special programs, including living history interpreters, highlight the arrival of Africans to Virginia in 1619.
Dr. Heather Williams, Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, helps Historic Jamestowne commemorate the arrival of the first Africans at Jamestown in August 1619 with her presentation of "Acquiring Literacy, Acquiring Freedom: Education Among Enslaved and Freedpeople in the American South." This presentation will be followed by a signing of Professor Williams' book, Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom.
Jointly sponsored by the National Park Service and APVA Preservation Virginia.
(See also 9 August and 16 August.) |
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| Cost: Entrance fee; free to card-carrying APVA members |
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| Arrival of the First Africans Program |
| Saturday, August 9, 2008 |
| 2:00 p.m. |
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Special programs, including living history interpreters, highlight the first arrival of Africans to Virginia in 1619.
Mr. Alexander Tucker of the Tucker Society and descendant of William Tucker, the first recorded African American born in the American colonies, presents a timely discussion on the important and increasingly popular research of African American genealogy.
Jointly sponsored by the National Park Service and APVA Preservation Virginia.
(See also 2 August and 16 August.) |
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| Arrival of the First Africans Program |
| Saturday, August 16, 2008 |
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Historic Jamestowne Highlights Arrival of First Africans at Jamestown On Saturday, August 16, 2008, Historic Jamestowne will conduct special walking tours commemorating the anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia in 1619. The 45-minute program will be offered at 11:00 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. and will focus on the events that brought the first Africans to Jamestown and the contributions of early Africans and African Americans at Jamestown.
This event is co-sponsored by the National Park Service and APVA Preservation Virginia.
About the First Africans at Jamestown
In mid-August 1619 John Rolfe wrote in a letter that “20. and odd Negroes arrived…” at Point
Comfort aboard a Dutch man-of-war. Traded for provisions, these 20-some Africans were
loaded onto another ship and brought to Jamestown and placed into servitude. Like their
penniless English counterparts, these first African settlers in Virginia were destined to spend a period of at least seven years in indentured servitude before gaining freedom. By the third quarter of the seventeenth century, however, term servitude evolved into bondage for life, or slavery, for many Africans in the colony.
(See also 2 August and 9 August.) |
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| Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeology Tour |
| Sunday, June 1, 2008 - Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| 11:00 a.m. |
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This 30-minute tour of the original 1607 James Fort site is conducted by an APVA Preservation Virginia archaeologist. Learn how historical archaeology was used in 1994 by Dr. William Kelso to rediscover the once-lost fort site and how it is still used today by staff archaeologists to locate features of the fort's interior and artifact treasures. (Tour will not be given on 4 July.)
The site is jointly sponsored by the APVA and the National Park Service. |
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