The First Documented Africans and Hear Their Story

They were captured in Angola and enslaved by the Portuguese in January 1619. They were intended to be enslaved when they were to arrive at their designated port of call in Vera Cruz, New Spain. They were kidnapped a second time on the high seas and brought to the shores of English North America on August 25, 1619. More than “20 and Odd” Angolans came as unknown individuals destined to be enslaved, but persevered and ended as wealthy land owners, procurers of English headrights, respected officers in the colonial government …now meet for the first time the first documented Africans in English North America ...learn their names, their remarkable story and present day genealogical importance.