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Earliest Arrivals

A Black man and women pose with mandolins and a guitar on the porch of a house in Denver, Colorado. A chicken and outhouse are near the two story wood frame house.

Miners pose with a pack train of burros near a lake or pond in the Red Mountain Mining District in Ouray or San Juan County, Colorado. Two of the men are African American. The men wear hats, and two smoke pipes. The burros carry split wooden logs. Shows a wooden post in a cairn.

A Black Corporal, (Buffalo Soldier) in the Ninth Cavalry, poses on his horse on the Native American (Lakota Sioux) Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. He wears a military uniform and has a gun in a holster on his belt. Snows covers the ground and frame agency buildings show in background.

Earliest Arrival of Africans in America

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