jan 1, 1501 - First Arrival of Enslaved Africans
Description:
The Spanish were the first to introduce enslaved Africans to their New World colonies.African slave laborers arrived on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola as early as 1501, soon after the first white colonists.
(Image: Slaves Working a Caribbean Sugar Cane Mill (Theodor de Bry, ca. 1590)
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Date:
jan 1, 1501
Now
~ 525 years ago