In the summer of 1619, sweltering heat and humidity wafted between the stiff breezes that swept Point Comfort as the White Lion, and just days later the Treasurer, landed on Virginia’s shores. The Dutch vessels commandeered by Englishmen carried African people forcibly brought to the colony after having been taken from a Portuguese ship that already bore the losses of nearly half of the human “cargo” shackled to the Sao Joao Bautista.1 To Europeans, these people were the bounty of an Angolan-Portuguese war. The muster, or census taken the following spring, listed fifteen men and seventeen women, confirming trends of increasingly more female captives as the historian Jennifer L. Morgan identified in research on the fifteenth-and sixteenth-century slave trade.2 Women captives who exist in the extant record included Margaret, Isabella, and Angela (listed as Angelo)