True or false Slaves were first sold in Colonial America in 1700?

Answer 1

In 1619, a Dutch ship tied up at the colony of Jamestown in Virginia. The captain paid for some tobacco it took aboard with about 20 black African captives. The "slaves" were probably seized as a prize from a slave trader bound for the Spanish West Indies. The popular theory has been that the blacks became "indentured servants," like white settlers who could not afford passage to the colonies. There is no record of this in the papers dealing with Virginia or Jamestown. The word "slave" did not appear in records of Virginia until 1656 and laws dealing with "slaves" did not appear until the 1660s.

With the success of tobacco planting, African Slavery was legalized in Virginia and Maryland, becoming the foundation of the Southern agrarian economy.

Answer 2

In 1619 twenty Africans were brought to Jamestown are the first slaves imported into Britain’s North American colonies to farm tobacco.

The first legal slave owner in America was black and he owned white slaves. Anthony Johnson (1600 – 1670) was an Angolan who achieved freedom in the early 17th century Colony of Virginia.Johnson was captured in his native Angola by an enemy tribe and sold to Arab (Muslim) slave traders.
This sort of trade was common in Africa. The African tribal leaders sold slaves that were Africans.

These facts make understanding the issue of slavery complex and sometimes difficult to understand. Slavery has been around from many thousands of years. In Rome, one in three people were slaves.