In 1619, the first enslaved Africans were brought to Point Comfort on a Dutch slave ship,[10] today's Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia, 30 miles downstream from Jamestown, Virginia. They were kidnapped by Portuguese slave traders.[11] The Virginian settlers treated these captives as indentured servants and released them after a number of years. This practice was gradually replaced by the system of chattel slavery used in the Caribbean.[12] As servants were freed, they became competition for resources.