The first 19 or so Africans to reach the English colonies arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619, brought by Dutch traders who had seized them from a captured Spanish slave ship. The Spanish usually baptized slaves in Africa before embarking them.
Define paternalism as it formed a part of the culture of race enslavement. Slaves were acquired by European traders. These traders had either captured the slaves via raids along the coast or from purchasing/trading with local African slave traders.
Slavery was different prior to statehood than it became afterward. Slaves came into the state in small numbers and worked alongside whites at similar tasks. Enslaved men, armed with weapons, even helped defend fortifications against Indian attack.
