Webinar Recording: The Arrival of the First Africans in English America to their Descendants in the Revolutionary War

Let's Talk Series by Dock C. Bracy Center for Human Reconciliation

On Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 7-9 p.m. EDT, Ric Murphy, Educator, Historian, Lecturer, and Award Winning Author, presented Lets' Talk Series: The Arrival of the First Africans in English America to their Descendants in the Revolutionary War.

Continue the Learning

We suggest the following materials:

• Documentary: Arrival of the First African Americans in English America (Verity Media, 2023) [https://arrivalfirstafricans.vhx.tv/]

• Book: Arrival of The First Africans in Virginia (History Press, 2020)  [https://bookshop.org/p/books/arrival-of-the-first-africans-in-virginia-ric-murphy/14352584?ean=9781467145985]

• Book: Section 27 and Freedman’s Village (McFarland and Company, Inc., 2020) [https://bookshop.org/p/books/section-27-and-freedman-s-village-in-arlington-national-cemetery-the-african-american-history-of-america-s-most-hallowed-ground-ric-murphy/10334612?ean=9781476677309]

• Book: Biography of RADM Larry Chambers, USN (McFarland and Company, Inc., 2018)  [https://bookshop.org/p/books/rear-admiral-larry-chambers-usn-first-african-american-to-command-an-aircraft-carrier-ric-murphy/10314874?ean=9781476667270]

• Book: Freedom Road: An American Family Saga from Jamestown to World War (Franklin Pearson Publishing, 2019)  [https://bookshop.org/p/books/freedom-road-an-american-family-saga-from-jamestown-to-world-war-ric-murphy/8647230?ean=9780578486024].

Where and how you choose to spend money has power. Please consider purchasing books from a black-owned bookstore.

Connect with Ric Murphy

• Website: https://www.ricmurphy.com

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RicMurphyBooks/

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOqG66xXizX8HETxZ9jQ-6Q?view_as=public

• Documentary Official Site: https://www.arrivalfirstafricans.com

• Facebook: Arrival of the First Africans in English America https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091928165129

• Twitter: @1stafricans https://twitter.com/1stafricans

• Instagram: @arrivalfirstafricans https://www.instagram.com/arrivalfirstafricans

Additional Resources/References

• https://ricmurphy.com/

• Ric's documentary: https://filmfreeway.com/ArrivaloftheFirstAfricansinEnglishAmerica

• More about Phillis Wheatley: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/phillis-wheatley

• victuals: food or provisions

• Ric's book: https://ricmurphy.com/purchase-the-book/

• DAR Forgotten Patriots: https://www.dar.org/library/research-guides/forgotten-patriots

• "Their cash crop was enslavement."

• "There was a specific reason that history was intended to be forgotten and intentionally erased."

• "We learn 'his story' not the real story."

• More about Bantu people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_peoples

• The treaty he's talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas

• Map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas#/media/File:Spain_and_Portugal.png

• An excellent explanation of the enslavement of indigenous people by the Spanish and Portuguese in Central and South America, and later North America: https://www.npr.org/2016/04/17/471622218/horrors-pile-up-quietly-in-the-other-slavery

• A recording of this webinar will be posted on the Dock C. Bracy Center website eventually at https://www.dcbcenter.org/resources-old. You can find videos of our previous webinars covering a variety of topics.

• Kate shared this book "Psychic Roots: Serendipity and Intuition in Geneology" https://genealogical.com/store/psychic-roots/

• You can email Ric at ricmurphy@ricmurphy.com

• And more about Ric: https://ricmurphy.com/

• "The Revolutionary War was an integrated war." Not until after the Revolutionary War did they segregate the soldiers.

• If you're interested, Ric discusses indentured servitude and how that turned into chattel slavery at length in "Arrival of the First Africans in Virginia."

• 1705 Slave Codes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Slave_Codes_of_1705

• More about the massacre of 1622: https://www.worldhistory.org/Indian_Massacre_of_1622/

• This is a podcast with the author Michael Harriot who talks more about the skills that were brought to the U.S. via enslaved people: https://slate.com/podcasts/a-word/2023/09/beyond-basic-black-history

• Michael's book: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/black-af-history-michael-harriot?variant=40991976128546

• Africans and inoculation: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/smallpox-inoculation-history-onesimus-mather.html

• Cuffeytown: https://www.visitchesapeake.com/things-to-do/history/aaht/cuffeytown/

• 10 Million Names project: https://10millionnames.org/

• Hidden African DNA revealed by testing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/they-considered-themselves-white-but-dna-tests-told-a-more-complex-story/2018/02/06/16215d1a-e181-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html

• And: https://www.science.org/content/article/genetic-study-reveals-surprising-ancestry-many-americans

• manumitted: release from slavery; set free

• Speaking of slavery outside the south, a professor at a college near where I live talked about how slavery benefited the state of Minnesota: https://shop.mnhs.org/products/slaverys-reach

• Slave market in NYC: https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/mannahatta-park/highlights/19696

• I'm Black and I'm Proud: https://www.mainpointbooks.com/book/9798218039431

• Maybe this one too: https://www.amazon.com/Am-Proud-Be-Me/dp/1737311720

• A copy of the recording will be here: https://www.dcbcenter.org/resources-old

• Upcoming events for Dock C Bracy Center, including a reading group next Wednesday! https://www.dcbcenter.org/events

• Learning series: https://www.dcbcenter.org/post/eradicating-racism-a-path-forward-learning-series-september-2024

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Ric Murphy is an educator, historian, lecturer, and award winning author, including the highly acclaimed Freedom Road. Ric was a Senior Executive Fellow at Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government; and he has a Masters in Urban Affairs from Boston University, and a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Massachusetts. Mr. Murphy has served in elected and appointed positions within state and local governments, and has taught and lectured at the post secondary level. He has served as Chairman of the Board of several private and community based organizations; served on numerous national, local and not-for-profit Boards of Directors; served on countless Advisory Boards to community based organizations and not-for-profits; and has received numerous awards for his public activism and community work. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and his family lineage dates to the earliest colonial periods of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and of Jamestown, Virginia. His family lineage has been evaluated and accepted by the Daughters of the American Revolution, the National Society of the Sons of Colonial New England, the Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War, and the Society of the First African Families of English America. In his writings, Murphy explores the roles and rich contributions made by African Americans in United States history. He lives and works in Washington, D.C..

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