. >>> next, author diana remi barry talks about her book, the price for the pound of flesh. the value of the enslaved from wounded to grave and the building of a nation. this interview was recorded at the organization of american historians annual meeting, and philadelphia. >>this marks the anniversary of the first slavery sold where they come from? >> they came from different parts of west africa but they were actually taken on a ship and captured. and then captured again off of a different ship. when you look at the journey, there were two different points while they were taken on two different ships. >> we know about them? >> from ship record, and records from virginia. and we know very little information about them. we know bits and pieces. >> what we know? >> we know that they arrived, they were not listed as enslaved they were listed as servants. we know they came in there pretty sick when i got the ship. and he lived in virginia and some of them created families and had the first generation of african-americans in this country. >>who were they children, women men? >>

. >>> next, author diana remi barry talks about her book, the price for the pound of flesh. the value of the enslaved from wounded to grave and the building of a nation. this interview was recorded at the organization of american historians annual meeting, and philadelphia. >>this marks the anniversary of the first slavery sold where they come from? >> they came from different parts of west africa but they were actually taken on a ship and captured. and then captured again