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Angelo (Angela), likely born in the West African kingdom of Ndongo in present-day Angola, was captured and sold to slave traders and forced onto a Portuguese ship. As the ship neared Spanish America, two English privateers, the White Lion and the Treasurer, attacked it and removed Angelo and about 60 other Africans. The White Lion arrived at Point Comfort, Virginia, in August 1619, followed by the Treasurer with Angelo aboard. There she and about 30 others, the first documented Africans in Virginia, were sold. Angelo labored in the Jamestown household of Capt. William Peirce, a planter, merchant, and political and military leader, and she last appears in colonial records in the muster of 1625.
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