The first African Americans to arrive in the English colonies were indentured servants. They were probably shocked when slavery became common soon after that.
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The first African Americans in the English colonies were brought to Jamestown.
The Native Americans and the English settlers after Lord De La Warr arrived in 1610 negatively affected relations. The hopes of an alliance between the Powhatan and the Virginia settlers was revoked.
the first African Americans in the English colony were brought to Plymouth rock by George Washington.
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Assimilation is when one group of people gives up their culture for another dominant culture. During this process, they lose their culture. Though African Americans were forced to relinquish most of their culture when brought to America (by slave masters and also by being strewn about on plantations with Africans who were from different countries, speaking different languages & having different cultures), Africans were able to keep a lot of their heritage alive. Consider spirituals, where they were intertwined with English words (incl. Ebonics) and African tunes. Also consider African characteristics, i.e., music, worship/praise, dance, family, etc. There are a lot of African that African Americans have retained, but don't even know!