Extensive Works by David Barton

David Barton tells us that despite such extensive works, many of our early black heroes and patriots are unknown today; and equally unknown is much of what occurred in black political history. That history will surprise and shock many, but it is a history based on indisputable facts and documents.Too often, only a handful of the heroes from black history are presented – much like showing only a snapshot or two out of several albums of photos. Too much information is not presented today; and often, too many conclusions are wrongly assumed from the little that is seen.

 

For example, while students in school early learn that the first load of slaves sailed up the James River in Virginia in 1619 and thus slavery was introduced into America, 9 few learn about the first slaves that arrived in the Massachusetts Colony set up by the Christian Pilgrims and Puritans. When that slave ship arrived in Massachusetts, the ship’s officers were arrested and imprisoned and the kidnapped slaves were returned to Africa at the Colony’s expense. 10 That side of history is untold today.nell’s 1855 workthe religious pilgrims opposed slavery