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Angolan immigration in the United States began in the XVII century, XVIII century and early XIX century, when many of the Angolans who were bought as slaves to [[Americas]] were exported to the United States. So, according the researcher in cultural anthropology and American filmmaker Sheila Walker, Angolan slaves (15 men and 17 women) were the first Africans to arrive to the [[Thirteen Colonies]], specifically in [[Jamestown, Virginia]] in 1617, when they were diverted a Spanish ship by an English ship bound for [[Mexico]]. <ref name="hojelusofonia">http://www.hojelusofonia.com/angolanos-participaram-na-criacao-dos-eua/ Hoge Lusofonia. Angolanos participaram na criação dos EUA (In Portuguese). Retrieved September 8, 2012, to 19:45 pm.</ref> These first Angolan slaves of Virginia were [[Mbundu people|Mbundu]]<ref name="Anmelung"/> and [[Bakongo]], which spoke [[Kimbundu language| Kimbundu]] and [[Kikongo language]]s respectively. Following the Portuguese conquest and according to the [[Washington Post]], many of this first slaves had have contact with Europeans "for many years", specifically since 1484, when the Portuguese ships of Cão reached the [[Zaire River|Zaire]] or [[Congo River|Congo]] rivers, the second most large Africa (after the [[Nile River|Nilo]]) and the portugueses established relationships with the king Kongo, Manicongo. Also, many of this early slaves were literate.<ref name="portuguesetimes">http://www.portuguesetimes.com/Ed_1849/util/beat.htm Portuguese Times (In Portuguese). Retrieved in September 07, 2012, to 20:40 pm</ref>
Later, the slaves were stolen by English and Dutch pirates to previous owners, the Portuguese, when went out with the slaves of the Angolan port of [[Luanda]].<ref name="Anmelung">http://bz.llano.net/gowen/melungia/article1.htm. ANGOLAN ORIGINS OF MELUNGEONS IN 17TH CENTURY VIRGINIA. Accessed on 15 October 2010 at 08:29</ref>So, the Angolans also were the first slaves in [[New York]], when this place was called [[New Amsterdam]] and was Dutch.<ref name="portuguesetimes"/> Angolan slavery in the United States had its stronghold between 1619 and 1650.<ref name="Anmelung"/>
So, the people from of the region Congo-Angola were a 25% of the slave imported in North America, being everyone them or al least, mostly, Angolan people. Many Angolan slaves came of ethnics such as [[Bakongo]], the Tio <ref name="africanroots">http://www.black-collegian.com/issues/1998-12/africanroots12.shtml The Black collegian online. Posted by by James A. Perry. Retrieved in September 07, 2012, to 17:10 pm.</ref> and [[Northern Mbundu people|Mbundu]] of [[Kingdom of Ndongo]].<ref name="Anmelung"/> However, the Bakongo were Catholics, already that the [[kingdom of Kongo]] had voluntarily converted to Catholicism in 1491, after of the Portuguese conquer of this territory <ref name="Thornton">[http://books.google.com/books?id=7QZoSoy_2DYC&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=Stono+Rebellion&source=bl&ots=hfRJWBwRVj&sig=ZAyuKBNs4V0Sp56MFGWqYfMFOrI&hl=en&ei=1LHhSZzoEZvglQeyx_nfDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9#PPA115,M1 John K. Thornton, "The African Roots of the Stono Rebellion"], in ''A Question of Manhood'', ed. Darlene Clark Hine and Earnestine Jenkins, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999, pp.116–117, 119, accessed 12 Apr 2009</ref>. Others places from United States such as [[Delaware]], [[Indiana]] or [[South Carolina]] also had Angolans slaves.<ref name="portuguesetimes"/> So, the majority of slaves of some places as [[Virginia]] and [[Maryland]] came from within the boundaries of the modern nation-states of [[Nigeria]] and Angola.
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