Setting It Straight

A letter to the editor (Aug. 20) incorrectly stated “history reveals, however, there were unwilling Africans who were exploited much earlier in America, in the fourteenth century.” The Fourteenth century ran from 1300-1399. America was discovered after 1492.

According to Wikipedia, the first 19 or so Africans to reach the colonies England was struggling to establish arrived in Point Comfort, Virginia, near Jamestown, in 1619, brought by British privateers who had seized them from a captured Portuguese slave ship.