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Africa-Press – Angola. <\/strong><\/span>Over 400 years ago, the first enslaved Africans set foot in English North America in 1619 in Hampton, Virginia. Descendants like Vincent Tucker and his family traveled from Virginia to the Republic of Angola, an African nation, where they believed their ancestors originated.<\/p>\n

Vincent Tucker and his sister, Wanda, formed The William Tucker 1624 Society, an organization that researches William Tucker, the family\u2019s ancestor, the first child born in Virginia in 1624 of African ancestry. Many of William Tucker\u2019s progeny supposedly live in the Hampton Roads district.<\/p>\n

In September, Angola\u2019s president, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, met Tucker and his sibling at the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. The family learned more about the life of their ancestor William Tucker and his parents, Antony and Isabella, the enslaved servants of Capt. William Tucker and his wife, Mary Tucker.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is history that is part of our common history,\u201d Louren\u00e7o remarked through his interpreter after the private tour. \u201cAs Africans and Africans in the diaspora, we\u2019ve seen the whole suffering that our ancestors went through in the time of slavery, and that was very touching and profoundly emotional,\u201d USA Today reports.<\/p>\n

The Tuckers traveled to Angola at the invitation of Louren\u00e7o and took in the Kwanza River, where the slave ships sailed to dock at port Luanda.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can just imagine how that journey was for the enslaved \u2014 taken down to the river and being hauled away. It was very touching,\u201d Vincent Tucker said to 13 News Now.<\/p>\n

On Dr. Wanda Tucker\u2019s second trip to Angola, she highlighted exhibitions from the Sao Miguel Museum to her family members. The Portuguese colonized the African nation, but Queen Nzinga fearlessly fought against them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019re so many missing pieces on both continents,\u201d said Dr. Tucker. \u201cI feel empowered to identify myself as Angolan-American now because I know where my family came from, and that\u2019s powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hampton Roads has a plaque that documents the first captured Africans to arrive in Virginia in Aug. 1619. They were transported on the White Lion, an English armed vessel based in the Netherlands. The plaque also records that the slavery system was abolished in 1865.<\/p>\n

The Tucker family continual search of their roots serves as a backdrop to the political contention initiated by the Republican-controlled state legislators who want to ban the teaching of the The 1619 Project, by Pulitzer winner Nikole Hannah-Jones, that analyzes the intersection of race and law in America.<\/p>\n

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