"The arrival of the White Lion, an English privateer that brought the first enslaved Africans to the English colony of Virginia on August 20, 1619, marks the beginning of two and a half centuries of slavery in North America. This pivotal event happened a year before the arrival of the Mayflower in New England. Nikole Hannah-Jones, award-winning journalist and creator of The 1619 Project, brings up the importance of preventing the erasure of Black Americans from the historical narrative."