2019 marks the 400th anniversary of two important events in American History: The creation of the first representative assembly in English North America and the arrival of the first African people in English North America.

In this bonus episode, Cassandra Newby-Alexander helps us determine whether the English or Dutch brought the first African people to English North America and explore more about the lives of those first African people in early Virginia.

Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/250

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Complementary Episodes

• Episode 079: Jim Horn, What is a Historical Source? 
• Episode 206: Katherine Gerbner, Christian Slavery
• Episode 212: Erica Dunbar, Researching Biography
• Episode 220: Margaret Ellen Newell, New England Indians, Colonists, and Origins of Slavery
• Episode 224: Kevin Dawson, Aquatic Culture in Early America
• Episode 226: Ryan Quintana, Making the State of South Carolina

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