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'Can you tell the difference between the average ADOS and West African person at a glance?'
It depends on the individual person. Some West and Central Africans look similar to NWB (New World Blacks) and some don't. This is because NWBs are a mix of many West and Central African Bantu peoples + a significant amount of Western European peoples. This admixture will create people that will look different from the individual West and Central African Bantu peoples.
E.g. (Using just West and Central African Bantu peoples) - A Senegambian Wolof man has a child with an Angolan Ovimbundu woman. The child would neither look fully Wolof or fully Ovimbundu. Let's say that said child was male and he has a couple of children with a mixed woman born to Liberian Krahn father and a Cameroonian Bamileke mother. The children of said couple would be 25% Senegambian Wolof, 25% Angolan Ovimbundu, 25% Liberian Krahn and 25% Cameroonian Bamileke. Do you honestly think they are going to look fully Wolof, Ovimbundu, Krahn or Bamileke?
Now apply my examples across the Americas over a ~400 year period then add slave rape by European men (This is why NWB men have a significant amount of Western European Y-DNA haplogroups... for the most part) and there you have NWBs and their genetic and phenotypical differences from our West and Central African Bantu cousins.
... However,
Not all the TAS was equal and/or proportional. The number of slaves and where they came from varied from place to place. A slaver in one part of the Americas preferred slaves from certain areas of Africa, while another slaver prefered slaves from a different part of Africa. Plus, during certain times, some slaves from a specific ethnic group would be sent or placed in certain areas.
Examples:
Brazilian slaves mainly came from today's Angola (a lot of Angolan ethnic groups), DRC, SW Nigeria (mainly Yoruba) and Benin.
Jamaican slaves mainly came from today's Ghana, Southern Nigeria and Western Congo (Brazza and DRC)
When the Dutch owned The Guianas (Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) most of the slaves came from today's Ghana, Benin, Western Congo and Angola.
The Lowcountry region of the U.S. states of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, in both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands received a lot of slaves from today's Sierra Leone, Liberia, Western Congo and Angola. (The Gullah also tend to be the most genetically SSA of Aframs/ADOS).
It's not hard to imagine that with an abundance of slaves from the same ethnic group that said slaves would get together, interact with and even mix with each other continuously. So it really shouldn't surprise anyone that you might encounter say an Angolan looking Afro-Brazilian, a Beninese looking Haitian, an Igbo looking Jamaican, a Liberian looking Afram/ADOS etc.
It depends on the individual person. Some West and Central Africans look similar to NWB (New World Blacks) and some don't. This is because NWBs are a mix of many West and Central African Bantu peoples + a significant amount of Western European peoples. This admixture will create people that will look different from the individual West and Central African Bantu peoples.
E.g. (Using just West and Central African Bantu peoples) - A Senegambian Wolof man has a child with an Angolan Ovimbundu woman. The child would neither look fully Wolof or fully Ovimbundu. Let's say that said child was male and he has a couple of children with a mixed woman born to Liberian Krahn father and a Cameroonian Bamileke mother. The children of said couple would be 25% Senegambian Wolof, 25% Angolan Ovimbundu, 25% Liberian Krahn and 25% Cameroonian Bamileke. Do you honestly think they are going to look fully Wolof, Ovimbundu, Krahn or Bamileke?
Now apply my examples across the Americas over a ~400 year period then add slave rape by European men (This is why NWB men have a significant amount of Western European Y-DNA haplogroups... for the most part) and there you have NWBs and their genetic and phenotypical differences from our West and Central African Bantu cousins.
... However,
Not all the TAS was equal and/or proportional. The number of slaves and where they came from varied from place to place. A slaver in one part of the Americas preferred slaves from certain areas of Africa, while another slaver prefered slaves from a different part of Africa. Plus, during certain times, some slaves from a specific ethnic group would be sent or placed in certain areas.
Examples:
Brazilian slaves mainly came from today's Angola (a lot of Angolan ethnic groups), DRC, SW Nigeria (mainly Yoruba) and Benin.
Jamaican slaves mainly came from today's Ghana, Southern Nigeria and Western Congo (Brazza and DRC)
When the Dutch owned The Guianas (Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) most of the slaves came from today's Ghana, Benin, Western Congo and Angola.
The Lowcountry region of the U.S. states of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, in both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands received a lot of slaves from today's Sierra Leone, Liberia, Western Congo and Angola. (The Gullah also tend to be the most genetically SSA of Aframs/ADOS).
It's not hard to imagine that with an abundance of slaves from the same ethnic group that said slaves would get together, interact with and even mix with each other continuously. So it really shouldn't surprise anyone that you might encounter say an Angolan looking Afro-Brazilian, a Beninese looking Haitian, an Igbo looking Jamaican, a Liberian looking Afram/ADOS etc.
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Early in the morning and can't help being prejudice against your own ppl, huh, c00n?
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