The Majority Of African Americans Are Descended From - Igbo/Yoruba Tribes
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There is a tribe that was so resistant when brought over here, that the cacs ended up returning them. I have to find out which one it was., as it was a while ago I learned of it.....
Edit: It was the Mbunda and Imbangala that use to wreck havoc upon being brought here, that the slave traders had to send them back.....Whoever is from that tribe.
When I seen a Yoruban dude that looks like me.
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No,this isn't true.
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More Igbo slaves went to the Carribbean. Barbados was heavily settled by Igbo slaves. Many Yoruba slaves went to Cuba. They still speak Yoruba there. I met a Cuban who was a Babalowo in the Santeria religion and was working towards becoming fluent in Yoruba.
I think most Yoruba in the Caribbean were brought there after the collapse of the Oyo Empire, the rise of Dahomey and the violence which erupted in the wake of the jihad of Usman dan Fodio.
I think most Yoruba in the Caribbean were brought there after the collapse of the Oyo Empire, the rise of Dahomey and the violence which erupted in the wake of the jihad of Usman dan Fodio.
No,this isn't true.
Not just through the slave trade.......
More Igbo slaves went to the Carribbean. Barbados was heavily settled by Igbo slaves. Many Yoruba slaves went to Cuba. They still speak Yoruba there. I met a Cuban who was a Babalowo in the Santeria religion and was working towards becoming fluent in Yoruba.
I think most Yoruba in the Caribbean were brought there after the collapse of the Oyo Empire, the rise of Dahomey and the violence which erupted in the wake of the jihad of Usman dan Fodio.
No,this isn't true.
Disrespect folks that have done their lineage trace brehs..Majority of African americans can trace their roots back to Southeastern Nigeria breh...
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What do you mean? The slave trade was the means of how the vast majority of African peoples came to the Americas.
Read the OP again, and you're ignored for stupidity
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Then, the same can be said for African-Americans tracing their roots to Senegambia and Angola. There was an excellent thread which dispelled ideas about where the majority of African-Americans come from in Africa. OP is wrong. African-Americans have more roots tracing back to these areas than South-Eastern Nigeria. And I say this as an Igbo man.
This thread is the truth - http://www.thecoli.com/threads/refu...merican-music-culture-is-europeanized.280978/
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I was hoping you'd weigh in on this thread.
The thing is, unless we have records of the ships and direct routes, we will never know for sure. I've seen so many people claim this and that in the net, only to leave others so confused because they may have heard something similar but in a different way. Now with that out of the way, from the documents I have, it provided me with direct ports in west Africa and dates (along with "slaves" on board and gender) To when they arrived on my parents island. Whether people want to believe it or not, there's always been a small indigenous population of us here.
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Many historians are working on this. This database is very interesting.
http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/resources/slaves.faces