MATT GERSHUN

Author’s Note:

The dates 1619 and 1808 refer to the landing of 20 enslaved Angolans to the British colony Jamestown settlement in North America (1619) and the passing of a U.S. Congressional Act abolishing the importation of slaves into the United States (which went into effect January 1st, 1808). 

It should be noted, however, that the transatlantic slave trade began as early as 1514, in which Africans were enslaved and taken to many different countries throughout South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Likewise, despite the U.S. congressional act passed in 1808, the domestic slave trade continued in the United States for many decades further, playing a major role in sparking the American Civil War. The 13th amendment to the U.S. constitution - which abolished slavery in the entire United States - would not be ratified until 1865.

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