 These were taken to port and often sent to other parts of the Spanish and Portuguese empires, which were brought together in that time by the Iberian Union.The fluyt "San Juan Bautista" took a large group through the Middle Passage from Luanda in Angola to the bay of Veracruz in Mexico, before the attack by English privateers.Of the 350 total on the slave ship, about 143 died in the voyage, and 24 children were sold during a stop at the Colony of Santiago in Jamaica, with 123 enslaved people eventually being taken to Veracruz, in addition to the smaller group of 20-30 taken by the English.