My ancestors were deliberate colonizers

The common narrative is that the first African slaves were brought to the Jamestown colony in America in 1619, however, when diving deeper, enslaved people of color were forcibly brought to this country as early as the 1500s. And, of course, slavery was rampant in many other countries long before then and continues in some areas to this day.

The date, 1619 reminded me of the ancestry research my great-grandmother gathered to become a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).