{"id":61966,"date":"2017-07-30T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61966"},"modified":"2017-07-30T06:50:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T10:50:28","slug":"local-paper-south-carolina-historian-joseph-mcgill-wants-to-observe-the-1619-start-of-slavery-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61966","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) South Carolina historian Joseph McGill wants to observe the 1619 start of slavery in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They were kidnapped from towns in Ndongo, given Christian names such as Isabella and Anthony, chained onto cramped bunks aboard a Portuguese slave ship for an 8,000-mile trip to Mexico. The ship didn&#8217;t make it.<\/p>\n<p>It was plundered at sea by English pirates sailing under a Dutch flag. The pirates brought &#8220;20 and odd&#8221; of the African captives to the Jamestowne colony, where they were sold as &#8220;victualls,&#8221; or supplies.<\/p>\n<p>The date was August 1619, and the sale is considered the beginning of slavery as an institution in what would become the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph McGill doesn&#8217;t think that should be forgotten.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/south-carolina-historian-wants-to-observe-the-start-of-slavery\/article_da50a510-6bd4-11e7-a305-eb18c9b09125.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were kidnapped from towns in Ndongo, given Christian names such as Isabella and Anthony, chained onto cramped bunks aboard a Portuguese slave ship for an 8,000-mile trip to Mexico. The ship didn&#8217;t make it. It was plundered at sea<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61966\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,202,209,199,133,197,458,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","category-africa","category-americau-s-a","category-england-uk","category-history","category-mexico","category-portugal","category-racerace-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61968,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61966\/revisions\/61968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}