13News Now, Feb 15, 2019
13News Now documentary '20 and Odd: Africans' Arrival in 1619' looks at the extraordinary story of the first Africans who arrived in English North America.
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This pancocojams post showcases a YouTube video about enslaved Africans arrival in what is now known as Virginia in 1619 and a YouTube video of the nations of Africa.
This post also presents some information about the history of enslaved Angolans in the United States. Those enslaved Africans came from what is now known as Angola in the Southwestern region of Africa.
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Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publisher of this showcased video on YouTube.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/12/youtube-video-of-map-of-africa-video-of.html for a related pancocojams post entitled "Video Of Map Of Africa And Video Of & Article About United ."States President Biden's Visit To Angola In December 2024.
SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - African Countries and Their Location/Africa Political Map/Africa Continent/List of African Countries
World Map, March 21, 2019
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Note: This map misspells the name of the West African nation of "Sierra Leone".
Click https://www.worldometers.info/geography/how-many-countries-in-africa/ for a list of the names of the 54 nations in Africa.
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THE HISTORY OF ENSLAVED ANGOLANS IN THE UNITED STATES
Excerpt #1
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angolan_Americans
..."Slavery in the 17th century
From the 17th century to the early 19th century, many Angolans were transported via the Atlantic slave trade to the United States. Enslaved Angolans were the first Africans in Virginia, and likely the first in all of the Thirteen Colonies, according to Sheila Walker, an American film maker and researcher in cultural anthropology. This refers to an event in 1617 in Jamestown, Virginia, when Angolan slaves were captured by pirates from a Spanish slave ship bound for New Spain and sent to Jamestown.[4] These first Angolan slaves of Virginia (15 men and 17 women[4]) were Mbundu[5] and Bakongo, who spoke Kimbundu and Kikongo languages respectively. Many of these early slaves were literate.[6] [note 1]
Later, Angolan slaves were captured by Dutch pirates from the Portuguese when Portuguese slavers left with the slaves from the Portuguese colonial port of Luanda.[5] Many of these slaves were imported by the Dutch to New York City, which, at this time, was called New Amsterdam and was under Dutch control. Thus, the Angolans also were the first slaves in New York City.[6] According to Harvard professor Jill Lepore, the slaves of Angola who arrived in New Amsterdam were also Ambundu and, to a lesser extent, Kongos, as was the case with the first slaves who arrived in Virginia.[7]
In 1621, Angolan former slave Anthony Johnson arrived in Virginia and was the first documented black slave in the Thirteen Colonies to earn his freedom and, in turn, own slaves himself. Anthony Johnson was granted ownership of John Casor after a civil case in 1654.[8][9] The Angolan slavery trade in the United States reached its greatest magnitude between 1619 and 1650.[5] In 1644, 6,900 slaves on the African coast were purchased to clear the forests, lay roads, build houses and public buildings, and grow food. Most of these were from the company's colonies in the West Indies, but came from its established stations in Angola.[3]
18th–19th centuries
During the colonial period, people from the region Congo-Angola made up 25% of the slaves in North America. Based on the data mentioned, many Angolan slaves came from distinct ethnic groups, such as the Bakongo, the Tio[10] and Northern Mbunbu people (from Kingdom of Ndongo).[5] However, not all slaves kept the culture of their ancestors. The Bakongo, from the kingdom of Kongo, were Catholics, who had voluntarily converted to Catholicism in 1491 after the Portuguese established trade relations in this territory.[11] Senegambian slaves were the preferred slaves in South Carolina but Angolans were the most numerous and represented around a third of the slaves population.[12] In Virginia, most slaves came from within the boundaries of the modern nation-states of Nigeria and Angola. Between 1710 and 1769, only 17% of the slaves who arrived in Virginia were from Angola.[13] Others places in the United States, such as Delaware and Indiana, also had Angolan slaves.[6] Georgia imported also many slaves from the Congo-Angola region.
Many of the Bakongo slaves who arrived in the United States in the 18th century were captured and sold as slaves by African kings to other tribes or enemies during several civil wars. Some of the people sold from Kongo to the United States were trained soldiers.[11] In 1739, there was an uprising in South Carolina, where possibly 40% of the slaves were Angolan. This uprising, known as the Stono Rebellion, was led by an Angolan named Jemmy, who led a group of 20 Angolan slaves, probably Bakongos and described as Catholic. The slaves mutinied and killed at least 20 white settlers and several children. They then marched to Charlestown, where the uprising was harshly repressed. Forty of the slaves in the revolt (some Angolans) were decapitated and their heads strung on sticks to serve as a warning to others. This episode precipitated legislation banning the importation of slaves. The ban was aimed at solving two serious problems: the inhumanity toward the black slaves and the fact the country had more blacks than whites.[6] Later, some 300 former Angolan slaves founded their own community in the Braden River delta, near what is now downtown Bradenton, Florida. They gave it the name of Angola, in honor of the homeland of many of them, and tried to live as free men. However, this Angola was destroyed in 1821. Rich hunters and slaveholders hired 200 mercenaries and captured 300 black people and burned their houses. It is believed, however, that some Angolans fled in rafts and successfully reached Andros Island in The Bahamas, where their lives were established."...
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Excerpt #2
From https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/history/descendants-enslaved-africans-visit-ancestors-birthplace/ "Hampton residents, descended from first enslaved Africans in English North America, visit ancestor's birthplace"
Members of the Tucker family of Hampton were invited to come to Angola by the country's president.
Author: Janet Roach, January 13, 2022
HAMPTON, Va.
"It was a trip of a lifetime.
Vincent Tucker, president of the William Tucker 1624 Society, and his sister, Wanda, recently returned to Virginia from a five-day visit to Angola, Africa; a trip they took at the invitation of the country's president, João Lourenco.
The Tuckers are believed to be descendants of two of the first enslaved Africans to land in English North America at Point Comfort in 1619, which is in present-day Hampton, Virginia.
Angola is the country those African slaves came from.
"My mind began to bring everything together," Vincent Tucker said. "The stories I've been hearing, they started coming alive."
From the moment they landed, the Tuckers said they were treated like celebrities, surrounded by media at every stop.
The trip came months after President Lourenco visited Washington D.C. and toured the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. He met the Tuckers there and promised to host them in Angola.
"We showed up, we talked and he said, 'I'm going to invite you to Africa,'" Vincent recalled.
For years, the Tuckers have researched the landing of the "20 and Odd" Africans in Hampton, Virginia in 1619. They were captured off the San Juan Bautista, a Portuguese slave ship, by British pirates on board the White Lion.
Two of the slaves on that ship, Anthony and Isabella, eventually lived in the household of Captain William Tucker in Hampton.
This was Wanda Tucker's second visit to the country and she was anxious to show her brother and cousin the Sao Miguel museum's exhibit on the history of Queen Nzinga, a fierce leader who challenged the Portuguese rule in the 1600s and the slave trade.
Perhaps the most emotional moment came when the Tuckers dipped their feet in the Kwanza river, which served as an access point for slave ships on their way to the port of Luanda.
"We can just imagine how that journey was for the enslaved -- taken down to the river and being hauled away. It was very touching," said Vincent.”…
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Wanda Tucker and her brother Vincent Tucker are believed to be descendants of two of Atony and Isabella, the
first enslaved Africans to land in English North America at Point Comfort in
1619, which is in present-day Hampton, Virginia. Atony and Isabella came from the area now known as Angola.
Wanda and Vincent Tucker accompanied United States President Joe Biden on his December 2024 visit to Angola.
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