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	History of Barbados
		The island was therefore claimed on behalf of King James I. On February 17th 1627, Captain Henry Powell landed with a party of 80 settlers and 10 slaves to occupy and settle the island.
		The colonists established a House of Assembly in 1639.
		The slaves came from Sierra Leone, Guinea, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Cameroon.
	www.barbados.org /history1.htm (1311 words)

	MSN Encarta - African American History
		The territories that are now Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria were the origins of most slaves brought to North America, although significant numbers also came from the areas that are now Senegal, Gambia, and Angola.
		The first Africans brought to the English colonies in North America came on a Dutch privateer that landed at Jamestown, Virginia, in August 1619.
		When the ship finally put into Jamestown, it had only 20 surviving Africans to sell to the struggling colony.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761595158/African_American_History.html (802 words)

	Chronology on the History of Slavery 1619 to 1789
		Jamestown had exported 10 tons of tobacco to Europe and was a boomtown.
		In fact, the first twenty "Negar" slaves had arrived from the West Indies in a Dutch vessel and were sold to the governor and a merchant in Jamestown in late August of 1619, as reported by John Rolfe to John Smith back in London.
		While Ghana was the headquarters of the African slave trade, Tropical America was the real center of the trade.
	www.innercity.org /holt/slavechron.html (17726 words)

	Bermuda and USA have unique historical and commercial ties
		He would have died at sea in 1609, instead of surviving on Bermuda until he left for Jamestown in 1610.
		Unlike in Jamestown, with a potentially hostile native people, bitter winter weather, chronic shortage of available foodstuffs and other hardships for the colonists to endure, the Bermuda islands offered no such problems.
		Compared to the shortcomings of Jamestown, these were assets indeed, to lure those who wanted to finance colonial ventures and others to volunteer as colonists.
	www.bermuda-online.org /usa.htm (4658 words)

	Timeline 1661-1699
		Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia involved an attack on a local Indian community and the sacking of the colonial capital in Jamestown.
		1676 Sep 1, Nathaniel Bacon led an uprising against English Governor William Berkeley at Jamestown, Virginia, resulting in the settlement being burned to the ground.
		Bacon's Rebellion came in response to the governor's repeated refusal to defend the colonists against the Indians.
	timelines.ws /1661_1699.HTML (13626 words)

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