Mike Wetzel, in the early half of the 17th century, Dutch were NOT involved in any sort of slave trade. That is the time period in question with Miss Thrope. What happened after that is not up for issue. Simple fact is, by 1650, there were about 300 blacks in Virginia colonies, few were free but rest were listed as indentured. There were 4,000 whites, listed as indentured. Look it up yourself, Mike. The Spanish during that period, mostly controlled the black slave trade but most of the blacks were headed toward their Empire, not the English. Nice that you were able to traced your forefather back in 1750 but that is 100 years after the period of debate between Miss Thrope and myself. But back in 1750, that was part of the white indentured high tide since it was after the utter defeats of the Jacobite's rebellion in Scotland in 1748 and hordes of Scots were shipped oversea to various British colonies as indentured. Was your forefather back in 1750...a Highlander by any chance?