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In 1619, White Lion, a Dutch man-o-war commanded by John Colyn Jope, marked the first arrival of enslaved Africans in Virginia. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5309/willmaryquar.68.3.0332 John Colyn Jope was an Englishman, and a Calvinist, not a Jew. Jews were contracted to deliver slaves to Spanish colonies. https://lithub.com/tracing-the-ancestry-of-the-earliest-enslaved-ndongo-people/
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