Emery County Progress | 1905-02-04 | Page 2 | First Slaves in America

FIRST SLAVES IN prove year 1501 to be date of importation one of the common everyday er bors which Is taught in the schools in america is that which relates to the introduction into the western heat sphere of african slavery writes a critic fhe school histories which ake school girl and school boy study eay that it dates from or 1619 when a dutch sea captain sold the english settlers the first airlean the year 1501 however Is the date of the earliest reference in american history to negroes coming from spain to america years before albany N Y was settled by the dutch and years before jamestown va was set tied by the english in 1505 king ferdinand of spain wrote to orando then governor of Hispan lola I 1 will send more negro slaves as you request in 1510 fifty negro slaves were sent to work in the mines of hispan lola there is a record of king fer dinand s response to a request of las caas bishop of la concepcion Concep clon in Hispan lola that more negroes should be imported he said there are already many negroes on the island this was in the year 1514