Two English ships captured and divided the Portuguese slave ship Sao Joao Bautista.

Evidence

The White Lion Claudia Rankine Even dawn begins before its beginning and still, in the tale of the beginning that forestalls an end, let’s agree— a long way from the Kingdom of Ndongo, two English ships pirate a third, the Portuguese São João Bautista, and split up its human cargo. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 71

Categorization

• XREF: The captured ship’s African origins in the Kingdom of Ndongo connect to the broader Atlantic slave trade scholarship and to earlier chapters’ framing of Africa’s centrality.