A: The first people who come to Jamestown from Africa in a sense come as slaves. We're not sure whether they had been captured off a slave ship in the Caribbean or whether they'd been transported ...

JAMESTOWN —Wanda Tucker and Antonio D. Charity want to encourage others to learn more about their own family history, despite how difficult it may be. Their stories were part of Jamestown Settlement’s ...

A hundred-plus Englishmen debark from three ships and set up housekeeping on the swampy shores of the James River. This year's 400th anniversary celebrations honor that event as the beginning of this ...

In this excerpt from a Post Reports episode from May 3, 2019, reporter DeNeen L. Brown talks with Martine Powers about the first enslaved African woman documented in Jamestown. In this excerpt from a ...

When Peter Fay moved to Jamestown 20 years ago, he set out to learn whatever he could about the town's history. One fact stood out: In the middle of the 18th century, Black and indigenous people made ...

JAMESTOWN — The foundation that oversees preservation efforts at Historic Jamestowne recently received a state grant that will help it better tell the story of escaped slaves who came to Jamestown ...

Now, as the country marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of those first slaves, historians are trying to find out as much as possible about Angela, the first African woman documented in Virginia ...