Bennett: As Black America marks 500 years of resistance in August, Virginians still remember the formerly enslaved

This August marks five centuries since the first recorded enslaved Africans arrived in what would become the United States; 81 years before Jamestown and nearly 250 years before the Declaration of Independence, a group of 100 Africans landed with a Spanish expedition along the South Carolina coast. The post Bennett: As Black America marks 500 years of resistance in August, Virginians still remember the formerly enslaved appeared first on Cardinal News.