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29. You don't count the Spanish in Florida because it was not a future colony b4 independence ?

https://sharondraper.com/timeline.pdf
That would 1500s and I do so more than 400 yrs IMO
If you only include British areas it would be Viginia 1619 Almost 400 years- 2019
There were stolen goods from a Spanish ship

However it only became law to own in British area 1640
There were no laws regarding slavery early in Virginia's history. But, in 1640, a Virginia court sentenced John Punch to slavery after he attempted to flee his service.[5] The two whites with whom he fled were only sentenced to an additional year of their indenture, and three years' service to the colony.[6] This marked the first legal sanctioning of slavery in the English colonies and was one of the first legal distinctions made between Europeans and Africans.[5][7]


Slaves processing tobacco in 17th-century Virginia
Enslaved people imported to American colonies[8]
Date Numbers
1620–1700 21,000
1701–1760 189,000
1761–1770 63,000
1771–1790 56,000
1791–1800 79,000
1801–1810 124,000[9]
1810–1865 51,000
Total 597,000
Edit to add these were records of imported live slaves and do not include those born into slavery on (future )American soil. If none of this is correct I would like to know thanks in advance