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1619 marks the beginning of slavery in America.  In this episode, we examine slavery's start and the practice of indentured servitude in Jamestown.   Read Kidnapping Maidens to be Sold in Virginia, 1618: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4242153.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A3a5b99f09124f9a60c31f7d5b103e894 Read “Poor Children to be Sent to Virginia, 1619”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4242154.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A3a5b99f09124f9a60c31f7d5b103e894 Read A Note of the Shipping of Men to Virginia, 1619: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4242154.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A3a5b99f09124f9a60c31f7d5b103e894 Read: John Pory’s Letter: http://www.virtualjamestown.org/exist/cocoon/jamestown/fha/J1033 Read the Virginia Census of 1624-1625: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4242281.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Aa6c443ef1651c00c6fa292e2f64a77b8 Fife and Drum by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3748-fife-and-drum License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/