My ancestry DNA Results (ADOS)

[Black Haven]

What islamic influence?

It's really there because of all the Muslim slaves from West Africa who were taken by force to the United States for three centuries, from the 1600s to the mid-1800s. Upward of 30 percent of the African slaves in the United States were Muslim, and an untold number of them spoke and wrote Arabic, historians say now. Despite being pressured by slave owners to adopt Christianity and give up their old ways, many of these slaves continued to practice their religion and customs, or otherwise melded traditions from Africa into their new environment in the antebellum South. Forced to do menial, back-breaking work on plantations, for example, they still managed, throughout their days, to voice a belief in the God of the Quran. These slaves' practices eventually evolved -- decades and decades later, parallel with different singing traditions from Africa -- into the shouts and hollers that begat blues music, historians believe.

Another way that Muslim slaves had an indirect influence on blues music: the instruments they played. Drumming (which was common among slaves from the Congo and other non-Muslim regions of Africa) was banned by white slave owners, who felt threatened by its ability to let slaves communicate with each other and by the way it inspired large gatherings of slaves. Stringed instruments (which were favored by slaves from Muslim regions of Africa, where there's a long tradition of musical storytelling) were generally allowed because slave owners considered them akin to European instruments like the violin. So slaves who managed to cobble together a banjo or other instrument (the American banjo originated with African slaves) could play more widely in public. This solo- oriented slave music featured elements of an Arabic-Islamic song style that had been imprinted by centuries of Islam's presence in West Africa, says Gerhard Kubik, an ethnomusicology professor at the University of Mainzin Germany who has written the most comprehensive book on Africa's connection to blues music ("Africa and the Blues").

Muslim roots of the blues / The music of famous American blues singers reaches back through the South to the culture of West Africa

 

[Jemmy]

A big percentage of Aframs have a Igbo female ancestor in their family tree but my maternal haplogroup from 23andme was found to be common in Yoruba’s and Fulani’s however.

You brought up a good point. I think in the 90s there was a study saying atleast 90 percent of Aframs had atleast either one Hausa ancestor or a Igbo ancestor. Amongst Virginia you’re probably going to have Igbo ancestry. But DNA wise Hausa and Fulani is overwhelmingly represented amongst Aframs.

The recent studies said what distinguishes Aframs from the rest of the diaspora is the overwhelming amounts of Nigerian DNA. So that Islamic element had to have came from Hausa and Fulani slaves. If coastal tribes say they received most of their slaves from the interior and were middlemen it makes sense.

 

[Jemmy]

What islamic influence?

Many of the slaves brought over to North America were Muslims or had exposure to it. Black Seminoles undoubtedly were Muslims.

 

[Black Haven]

You brought up a good point. I think in the 90s there was a study saying atleast 90 percent of Aframs had atleast either one Hausa ancestor or a Igbo ancestor. Amongst Virginia you’re probably going to have Igbo ancestry. But DNA wise Hausa and Fulani is overwhelmingly represented amongst Aframs.

The recent studies said what distinguishes Aframs from the rest of the diaspora is the overwhelming amounts of Nigerian DNA. So that Islamic element had to have came from Hausa and Fulani slaves. If coastal tribes say they received most of their slaves from the interior and were middlemen it makes sense.

You also have to take into account of the domestic slave trade that brought slaves from states like Maryland, Virginia and the Carolinas to Deep South states like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas , Louisiana and Arkansas. That’s why I don’t believe it’s that far fetched that many Aframs have a Igbo ancestor.

 

[GoAggieGo.]

If could pass for "white" then she's mostly white, no?

I’d say not necessarily.

After talking with my grandma and auntie, I know my great grandmother was white, but I can’t agree that just because you pass as white means you’re white.

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

This DNA shyt is fascinating
Did a 23&me some time ago. Significant euro ancestry (33%) which surprised me, given there are no actual fully white people in our known family. My mother comes from a long line of light skin blacks, so it shouldn't be too surprising. My father is something like 15% euro, and doesn't look it at all.

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Yesterday I saw Coli nikkas arguing a spicy cac was black because she had around 20% african DNA in this thread

That Cac ain’t Black lmao, she look damn near like that spicy Cac in that the NY dude scared of Compton thread

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

What islamic influence?

I’ve heard somewhere online that some of the first waves of captured Africans to be brought to the American Colonies were from the Islamic civilizations and settlements in West Africa where the Songhai Empire used to be.

@IllmaticDelta got some very interesting notes on how that Islamic influence fused into the DNA of ADOS musical culture...which explains why traditionally, the guitar is the king of instruments in ADOS culture.

 

[Lord_nikon]

My results

Luke cage ,,,, name need to be connor macleod

Jk

 

[Luke Cage]

Luke cage ,,,, name need to be connor macleod

Jk

 

[GoAggieGo.]

Is it me or does seem like based on these results that alot of british irish and scottish people fukking slaves?
Haven't seen very much french or spanish or italian or any other euro people. They mainly in Carribean brehs?

Does seem that way. When I analyze the last names in my family, they’re mostly British and Scottish. Got Irish in there as well. Knew a chick at A&T who used to always try to big up the Irish in her, even if it was only like 6 or 7% lol

 

[FocusedDaily]

Is it me or does seem like based on these results that alot of british irish and scottish people fukking slaves?
Haven't seen very much french or spanish or italian or any other euro people. They mainly in Carribean brehs?

A lot of the middle of the country was settled by irish farmers. For a long time they weren't accepted into mainstream northeastern society.
So depending on social class, Irish farmers either owned slaves, were slave drivers for other rich whites, or even worked along side former slaves during reconstruction after the civil war..

Hell, Gone with the wind is about a slave owning family named "O'hara" from Atlanta.

 

[Cleansprite]

All that sucka shiet Inside ur DNA- kdot

 

[KamikazePilot]

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Ran my raw data through DNA Land

 

[ultraflexed]

We been roughly 10% of a population in a majority white land for centuries

The avg ADOS is 10-20% "white". In spite of generations of oppression by the white majority, we have a tract record of challenging white supremacy, something your people don't do.

Actually its 10-30% white