They Called Her Angela.

ENSLAVED African Americans; BLACK history; COLONIZATION; NORTH American history; SOCIAL conditions of black women

Despite the arrival of African captives in other European settler communities at least 100 years before pirated Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, it was in that colony that much of the roadmap for North America's Black slave society was created. Virginia, after all, imported the largest numbers of Africans to North America, held resident the continent's largest enslaved Black population in the colonial and antebellum eras, and had the first exportable cash crop, signaling that North American White wealth could be generated from Black bodies in the fields of seized Indigenous lands. One of the original captives was an Ndongo woman whom the Portuguese had named Angela. This essay attempts to move this woman from the referential margins to a more central locus as we consider the significance of 1619 in the founding of the nation's history, the history of the Atlantic World, and the Black female diaspora. What, then, is Angela's story? And how does it help to frame the broader context of Black women's lives in British colonized North America? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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