A PBS Series Explores 5 Centuries Of Black History : NPR

A PBS Series Explores 5 Centuries Of Black History : NPR
"The very first African to come to North America was a free man accompanying Ponce de Leon who arrived in Florida in 1513, more than a century before the first 20 Africans arrived in Jamestown in 1620," Gates said. "Nobody was talking about those first 107 years of African-American history."