Ace the 2026 4th Grade Virginia Studies SOL – Unleash Your Inner History Buff!

The question is about the moment Africans first arrived in Jamestown as enslaved people. In 1619, a Dutch trading ship stopped at Point Comfort near Jamestown and brought about 20 enslaved Africans to the Virginia colony, where they were sold to colonists to work. This event is remembered as the start of slavery as an institution in Virginia, changing how labor was organized in the colony. Jamestown itself began earlier, in 1607, but the arrival of enslaved Africans in 1619 marks the key moment described. The other years don’t connect to this event: 1607 is when Jamestown started, 1645 relates to developments in the era, and 1776 is when the United States declared independence.