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What’s special about 1619 to be considered the start of American slavery?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown%2C_Virginia
It was when enslaved African people were first brought to Jamestown. Exactly when the start is more broadly is kind of harder to say since some things are more disputed
https://www.history.com/articles/american-slavery-before-jamestown-1619
It’s when England began colonizing the americas. Which is kind of arbitrary since there were slaves in the Americas before that and the founding of The United States of America was over 100 years later.