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Superstar
Breh, I'm familiar with all the tricks pulled on black folks in the 1800s when all this propaganda began to take fruition.
If they were so familiar with their origins, did they say which tribe in "Africa" they were from, or did they just regurgitate the information that white folks told them?
"Oh yeah, you live in South Carolina now, but your family is from the jungles of Africa"
No "African" person even called the land mass that at that time.
If you were a native "African" you knew your tribe and what part of the land mass you were from.
Period.
They did not call the whole shyt "Africa" that is strictly a European name taught to us.
Instead of nikkas being so in a hurry to claim your "Africaness" you might want to see if there's any validity to folks trying to tell you that the real trick white folks pulled is stealing your actual birthright land right from under your noses.
Did you (or anyone) expect the U.S. Census to include the country/tribe of ENSLAVED or formerly enslaved Black people? To them they are all just Black and from Africa.
Many knew and were enslaved with their families -- so they knew their parents were directly from Africa. Many had issues understanding them sometimes - cause many didn't want to learn the language spoke very few english words.
On top of that many of the enslaved were teens and children -- that didn't even know what their tribe or country was called -- cause they never left it -- or had the opportunity to learn it due to be sold away.
Like Mrs. Chloe Spear:
Chloe Spear (c. 1767-1815) was an enslaved African woman who became the subject of two posthumous biographies. She was approximately twelve years old when she was captured and brought to America, and although no outside records confirm the circumstances or date of her transatlantic journey, her biographies suggest that she arrived in Philadelphia in 1779. Captain Gamaliel Bradford, a member of a prominent Boston family, purchased her and brought her to Boston as a family servant. Before the end of the Revolutionary War, the Bradford family took Spear with them to reside in Andover, Massachusetts, approximately twenty miles north of Boston. The Bradfords eventually returned to Boston, bringing Spear with them. She was later baptized in the Second Baptist Church in Boston; church membership records indicate that she married a man named Cesar Spear. Together, they had seven children, all of whom she outlived. After slavery was abolished by the state of Massachusetts in 1783, Spear and her husband established and managed a boarding house in Boston for seamen and laborers. She opened her home to religious meetings and social gatherings for people of all races following her husband's death, becoming a beloved figure in both white and black religious and working communities. After her death from severe arthritis and "rheumatic affections" in 1815, Spear was buried in the white Bradford family vault in Boston's Granary Burial-Place (p. 85). The first biographical account of her life was published by Dr. Thomas Baldwin, minister of the Second Baptist Church, in March 1815, two months after her death. The Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, summarized here, appeared seventeen years later, in 1832.
Narrative here:
Rebecca Warren Brown Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a Native of Africa, Who was Enslaved in Childhood, and Died in Boston, January 3, 1815...Aged 65 Years. By a Lady of Boston.