The work of Linda Heywood and John Thornton was a great help in creating the new film for Jamestown Settlement.  My husband (Ernest Skinner) traveled to Angola in 2003 and 04 to shoot scenes relating to this.  I hadn't realized it was a "mystery."
-Melinda Skinner


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From: Jurretta Heckscher <[log in to unmask]>
> Dear colleagues:
>
> A front page article in today's Washington Post discloses fascinating
> and important new information about the first Africans brought to
> Virginia, the famous 1619 group from the "Dutch man of Warr."
>
> I am sorely tempted to copy and paste the article to the list, but I am
> fairly sure that would violate copyright.   Please, though, don't miss
> the chance to read it for yourself, at
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/02/
> AR2006090201097.html
>
> You can see the text of the slender Virginian record of this event at
> http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?
> collId=mtj8&fileName=mtj8pagevc03.db&recNum=266
>
> May the forthcoming Jamestown celebration bring us more such
> revelations!
>
> --Jurretta J. Heckscher
>
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