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Slavery in the ColoniesSlavery started in the US in 1619, when a Dutch ship arrived in Jamestown, Virginia. The seamen picked up tobacco and paid for it with 20 black African captives which the Dutch probably had seized from a slave trader bound for the Spanish West Indies.
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