The English privateer Treasurer brought 20 Africans to Virginia's Jamestown colony in 1619, the year before the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts. The Africans had been "rescued" from the Portuguese merchant-slaver ship San Juan Bautista but rather than being released as free men, they were sold in Virginia as indentured servants.

This decision led to four centuries of bad karma.

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