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If you've ever visited a National Archives facility or ever hope to you may
be interested in signing a petition regarding the proposal to cut visitor
hours.
Dick Eastman's Newsletter - http://tinyurl.com/muqa3
To add your voice to the messages being sent to the National Archives,
please go to http://www.petitiononline.com/FGS2006
10,473+ have signed so far.
Tim Stowell
Coffey-L, Coffey-D list moderator
If you've ever visited a National Archives facility or ever hope to you may
be interested in signing a petition regarding the proposal to cut visitor
hours.
Dick Eastman's Newsletter - http://tinyurl.com/muqa3
To add your voice to the messages being sent to the National Archives,
please go to http://www.petitiononline.com/FGS2006
10,473+ have signed so far.
Tim Stowell
Coffey-L, Coffey-D list moderator
A great article in today’s Washington Post
By Lisa Rein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 3, 2006; Page A01
JAMESTOWN -- They were known as the "20 and odd," the first African slaves
to set foot in North America at the English colony settled in 1607.
For nearly 400 years, historians believed they were transported to Virginia
from the West Indies on a Dutch warship. Little else was known of the
Africans, who left no trace.
Now, new scholarship and transatlantic detective work have solved the puzzle
of who they were and where their forced journey across the Atlantic Ocean
began.
The slaves were herded onto a Portuguese slave ship in Angola, in Southwest
Africa. The ship was seized by British pirates on the high seas -- not
brought to Virginia after a period of time in the Caribbean. The slaves
represented one ethnic group, not many, as historians first believed….
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