New Light on the "20. and Odd Negroes" Arriving in Virginia, August 1619

Abstract

I N his Generall History of Virginia (i624), Captain John Smith, speaking about occurrences there in i6i9, says: About the last of August came in a dutch man of warre that sold us twenty Negars.' The statement finds corroboration in two letters written from Virginia and arriving in England before the end of i6i9. On September 30, John Pory, secretary of state of the colony, wrote from Jamestown to Sir Dudley Carleton, English envoy to The Hague:

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