THE FIRST 19 SLAVES WERE AFRICANS AND THEY TRIED TO REACH ENGLISH COLONIES THEN THEY REACHED JAMES TOWN AND IN 1619 THEY WERE BOUGHT BUY DUTCH TRADERS SPANISH USUALLY BAPTIZED SLAVES
Ibraham linkon the hero himself signed the emancipation proclamation and he freed all the slaves that were in slaved. but then some had some problems because they had no jobs,food,money and some had a brand new life