WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A Virginia state agency that operates Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center museums has acquired on of the earliest known portraits of an African enslaved in the colonies.

The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation said it has acquired the portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo. He was a freeborn, educated African who was kidnapped in Africa and sold as a slave in Maryland during the colonial era.