right, every culture from way back took slaves. Egyptians comes to mind with the Jews. But an African American story of 500 years? The tying in America, at least a hundred years before the first Colonists who didn’t have slaves (White poor slaves though)? Semantics maybe, but maybe also misleading?
The first slaves were brought to Jamestown not long after the settlement was established, but that would make it 400 years ago in the US. There might have been some earlier in South American or the Caribbean, but I’m not sure.
But large numbers weren’t in the US until years later because it was a couple more centuries before several of the slave states were even settled by white people.