thanks Brent!
Paul Finkelman
Brent Tarter wrote:
> William Thorndale, "The Virginia Census of 1619," MAGAZINE OF VIRGINIA
> GENEALOGY 33 (1995): 155-171, prints an undated enumeration that Thorndale,
> from a variety of circumstantial and internal evidence, suggests was
> compiled several months before the arrival in the summer of 1619 of the
> famous Dutch ship containing what have heretofore been regarded as the first
> Africans to reach Virginia. The list that Torndale printed shows that
> several persons of African ancestry were in Virginia when the list was
> compiled; and if his dating of the document is correct, then there were
> black people in Virginia earlier than previously documented.
>
> However.
>
> Martha W. McCartney, "An Early Virginia Census Reprised," QUARTERLY BULLETIN
> OF THE VIRGINIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 54 (1999): 178-196, argues from other
> internal and circumstantial evidence that the list was actually compiled at
> a later date, which would mean that the Africans listed on the census
> probably did not arrive prior to the summer 1619 ship.
>
> The dating of the document is the key, and it is not an easy thing to do. I
> suspect that the scholarly discussion over the dating of the list is not yet
> over.
>
> Brent Tarter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: paul finkelman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 17 December, 2001 12:50 AM
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> Subject: first blacks
>
> Some years ago someone posted a reference to an article that argued that
> blacks arrived in Va. *before* 1619. Does anyone have that reference.
> Is this the accepted view these days?
>
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