Show FIRST SLAVES IN AMERICA documents prove year 1501 to B be date of importation one ot of the common everyday errors which Is taught ao 10 the schools la in america Is that which relates to the introduction into the tho western hemi sphere of african slavery a critic rhe school histories which me school girl and school boy study say that it dates from 1620 or 1619 when a dutch S sea ea captain sold the english settlers ehg th first african tn the yea year 1601 1501 however Is the date of the th earliest reference in american history to negroes coming from spain to america years before albany N Y was as settled by the dutch and 10 years before jamestown va was set tied by the english in 1505 king kin ferdinand of spain wrote to orando alien hen governor 0 Hi I 1 wll wil send more negro slaves as you request I 1 in 1510 1610 fifty negro slaves were sent to work in the mines of hispan lola iola there Is a record of ring king fer dinand s response to a request of laa caas bishop of la concepcion Concep clon in Hi that more negroes should be imported he ile said there are already many negroes on the island this was in the year 1514 |