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Reytory Angola

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Reytory Angola (c. 1626 – 1689) was a woman from New Amsterdam of African descent. Brought to the colony as a slave of the Dutch West India Company, she received conditional manumission in 1644. In 1661, she became the first person of African descent to petition a legislature as an individual when she successfully requested the manumission of her adopted son.

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