![]() ![]() ![]() “It suffered horrible mortality on the voyage to Vera Cruz.” More than 120 Africans aboard died en route. ![]() The ship was headed for Vera Cruz, on the coast of Mexico. She was forced aboard a slave ship, the San Juan Bautista, in Luanda, then a bustling slave-trading port on the coast of West Africa, according to Jamestown Rediscovery. “Did she have children? What did she die of? We will know more about this person, and we can reclaim her humanity.”Īngela was taken captive in 1619 during a war in Kongo. “If they find the remains, we can know how old she was when she arrived,” Newby-Alexander said. We don’t know what her original name was.” “It is presumed she was youngish - maybe in her early 20s,” said Cassandra Newby-Alexander, a history professor at Norfolk State University and co-author of “ Black America Series: Portsmouth, Virginia.” “Angela was her Anglicized name. Yet little is known about her beyond those facts. William Pierce, first as “Angelo a Negar” and then as “Angela Negro woman in by Treasurer.” By then, she had survived two other harrowing events: a Powhatan Indian attack in 1622 that left 347 colonists dead and the famine that followed. She is listed in the 16 census as living in the household of Capt. Two years ago, researchers launched an archaeological investigation in Jamestown at the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America to find any surviving evidence of Angela. ![]()
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