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Earliest Arrival of Africans in America

by angela on July 1, 2014

Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library

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.

African American (Black) children and a man sit in front of a log cabin in an unknown location. The man wears a jacket, short pants, and sits on the porch near wood buckets and chairs. One boy sits on a pile of rocks that serve as steps. He wears a hat, wool jacket and torn pants. Two children use spoons to eat from a large iron pot. All of the children are barefoot.

Men dig a ditch in Denver, Colorado; houses, neighborhoods, a fuel tank, and a smokestack are in the distance. African American men dig with shovels.

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