400 years (b)

Angela (fl. 1619–1625) Contributed by Brendan Wolfe Angela (also Angelo) was an enslaved laborer and among the first Africans to arrive in the Virginia colony in 1619. She appears in the census of 1624 as “Angelo a Negar” and the next year as “Angelo a Negro Woman in the Treasurer.” Likely born in present-day Angola,Continue reading “400 years (b)”