 By then Saint-Domingue had already won its independence and formed the independent Republic of Haiti.French-controlled islands were then limited to a few smaller islands in the Lesser Antilles.In late August 1619, the frigate "White Lion", a privateer ship owned by Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, but flying a Dutch flag arrived at Point Comfort, Virginia (several miles downstream from the colony of Jamestown, Virginia) with the first recorded slaves from Africa to Virginia.