Va.. to relieve an acute labor shortage in that small but thriving town. In the process. they were treated no differently from 100 young English lads who were also Imported as laborers in the same year. Both groups of immigrants. blacks and whites together. were classed as indentured servants. They worked for the number of years required by their contract and. to a man. they were freed. In both groups of immigrants were men who eventually became landowners. and even slaveholders themselves once that despicable institution was legalized in the colony. On September 21. 1969. a ceremony will be held in Jamestown. Va.. commemorating the arrival of these first black citizens. and noting the important contribution which Americans of African descent have made to this country since Its founding.
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