Mystery of Va.'s first slaves is unlocked.
For nearly 400 years, historians believed the first slaves to set foot
in North America were transported to Virginia from the West Indies on a
Dutch warship._ But new scholarship and detective work have solved the
puzzle of who they were and where their journey began.
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