History of South America

Where were the first slaves brought to new world What year?

Where: Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic)

Year: 1502

The first documented shipment of African slaves to the Americas took place on February 15, 1502, when a Spanish ship carrying several dozen slaves arrived in Hispaniola. The ships was a Portuguese slave ship that was captured by the Spanish and the slave transported to work in gold and copper mines.