In 1620 the first Negroes were sailed to the State of Virginia on America’s east coast by Dutch merchants. In the 17th 18th and 19th century big cargoes of African Negros, men, women and children were sent across the Atlantic Ocean. Many died because of the inhumane conditions on board of the ships. The survivors were sold like cattle to white planter´s at auctions, where men often were separated from their wives and children.
The strongest men and women worked in the tobacco-and cottonfields in the South and on the sugar mills on the Danish West Indies (U. S. Virgin Islands). Only a few – especially beautiful, young negrogirls – worked as house slaves, took care of children, cooked food and washed for the white families. The Negro families lived in small cabins and had a small piece of land, were they could cultivate their own vegetables and keep chickens and geese. They were the planter’s property, and he could punish them, sell them or give them in marriage.
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