Why are there so many blacks on Martha's Vineyard?
Why are there so many blacks on Martha's Vineyard? Originally inhabited by the Wampanoag people, The Vineyard was purchased in 1641 by Englishman Thomas Mayhew. At the time, the island's population consisted solely of European and Native American people until enslaved West Africans arrived in the 1600s, working on the farms of European settlers.
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