African American Families Seek Clues About Enslaved Ancestors

Four hundred years ago, the first enslaved Africans landed in what would become Virginia. August 1619 marked the beginning of nearly 250 years of slavery in America — what many have called “America’s Original Sin.” VOA‘s Chris Simkins tells us how some African Americans are preserving the history of their ancestors as a way to better understand how they and their freed descendants contributed to building a new nation.
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