Show T T J i f i I FIRST SLAVES IN AMERICA 6 Documents Prove Year 1501 to Be Date of Importation One of the common everyday errors errors errors er er- which is taught in the schools in America is that which relates to the they introduction into the western hemiSphere hemisphere hemi- hemi Sphere phere of at African slavery writes a critic The school histories which the school girl and school boy study say that it dates from 1620 or 1619 when a Dutch sea captain sold the English settlers the first African The year 1501 however Is the date of the earliest reference in American history to negroes coming from Spain to America America years before Albany N. N Y was settled by the Dutch and years before Jamestown Va was settled set tIed by the English In 1505 King Ferdinand of at Spain wrote to Orando then governor of ot I will send more negro slaves as you re re- quest In 1510 fifty negro slaves were sent to work worle In the mines of at Hispan Hispan- Iola lola There Is a record of at King Ferdinand's Ferdinands Ferdinands Ferdinand's Ferdinands Ferdinand's Fer Fer- dinand's response to a request of Las LasCasas LasCasas LasCasas Casas bishop of La Concepcion In I that more negroes should be Imported He said There are already many negroes on the island This was In the year 1514 |