Host 2019 marks the anniversary of the first africanamerican sold into slavery in the United States. Where were they from . Daina they came from different parts of west africa. They were taken on a ship and captured by the dutch, been then captured again off a portuguese ship. When you look at the journey, there were two different points when they were on ships. Host how do we know about them . Daina we know about this from ship records. We also know about this from the virginia records. We know very Little Information about them but we have bits and pieces. What do we know . We know that they arrived and they were not listed as end slaved listed as enslaved, they were servants. We know that they came and they were pretty sick when i got off the ship. They lived in virginia. Some of them had families and were the first generations of africanamericans in this country. Host who were they . Guest there were two or three women and the rest of them were men. They had their own families and