Up From Slavery: A 400-Year Journey

Up From Slavery: A 400-Year Journey
“The Cotton Pickers,” 1864, by Winslow Homer. Public Domain
Jeff Minick
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In August 1619, a privateer docked at Point Comfort near Jamestown, Virginia. In exchange for food and supplies, the privateer left behind “20 and odd” of the slaves it had seized from a Portuguese vessel.

And so, 400 years ago, began a blot on American ideals that would in time develop into the ugliest of stains.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
Author
Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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