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A state marker notes the first Africans in Virginia just outside Fort Monroe National Monument. (Photo/NPS)

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National parks will offer special programs on Sunday, Aug. 25 to commemorate the first landing of enslaved Africans 400 years ago in English-occupied North America at Virginia’s Point Comfort, now part of Fort Monroe National Monument.

August 21, 2019