It carries a cargo of 350 enslaved Africans.

The Portuguese ship was bound for Vera Cruz, New Spain (present-day Mexico), where its human cargo would be sold as slaves, with the vast majority going to labor in the sugar plantations of the Caribbean and South America.

The White Lion, along with the Treasurer, commanded by Daniel Elfrith, intercepted the São João Bautista on its way to modern-day Veracruz on the Gulf coast of Mexico. The ship unloaded at Point Comfort on the James River in the Colony of Virginia.

Slavery got its start on August 20, 1619 in Virginia, but the cruel selling and buying of human beings played a role in Philadelphia's history too.

M1895, Roll 7. Larger image | Hi-res image The Schooner Wild Cat The It carries a cargo of 350 enslaved Africans. It was the first cargo ship to wreck on the coastline of South Africa. Here is the challenge: to write a history of modern political thought and culture that can simultaneously – and equally – embody and communicate the perspectives of those who arrived in Virginia in the hold of the slave ship São João Bautista, of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, of Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Napoleon Bonaparte, of Andrew Jackson and Harriet Tubman. A colonial shipping document he uncovered in an account book identified a Portuguese slave ship called the San Juan Bautista. It was located on the northeast … The São João Baptista, Saint John the Baptist, commonly known as the Botafogo, was a Portuguese galleon warship built in the 16th century, around 1534, considered the biggest and most powerful warship in the world at the time.
The 20 and odd were captured when the Sao Joao Bautista, a Portuguese slave ship inbound from Angola, was attacked by pirates piloting a Dutch man-of-war, the White Lion, and British ship, the Treasurer, off Campeche, on the Gulf of Mexico, in late July 1619.

An estimated 350 of these captives were loaded onto a Portuguese slave ship called the São João Bautista (more commonly known as the San Juan Batista). Jope and Elfrith soon discovered that the São João Bautista, which departed from the Angolan port city of Luanda, was carrying approximately 350 enslaved Africans.
Sometime in 1619, the Portuguese slave ship São João Bautista left the port of São Paulo de Luanda, a Portuguese military outpost in west-central Africa and sailed for Vera Cruz, New Spain (present-day Mexico). Brief History of Slavery You Didn't Learn in School Mary Elliott & Jazmine Hughes , New York Times Magazine August 23, 2019 Sometime in 1619, a Portuguese slave ship, the São João Bautista, traveled across the Atlantic Ocean with a hull filled with human cargo: captive Africans from Angola, in southwestern Africa.

"1619 - Sometime in the first half of the year, the Portuguese slave ship São João Bautista leaves the port of São Paulo de Loanda, a Portuguese military outpost in West Africa, and sails for Vera Cruz, New Spain (present-day Mexico).

The two ships captured and divided part of the Portuguese ship's human cargo, under the aegis of Dutch letters of marque from Maurice, Prince of Orange. In 1552 the Portuguese ship São João ran aground near modern day Port Edward.