The Majority Of African Americans Are Descended From - Igbo/Yoruba Tribes
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The Little Known Mass Suicide Of Igbo Slaves In Savannah Georgia
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6:43pm On Nov 11, 2011
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The Little Known Mass Suicide Of Igbo Slaves In Savannah Georgia
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6:43pm On Nov 11, 2011
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There's even an Igbo village in Virginia due to the fact that such a large population were brought there..........
http://www.frontiermuseum.org/1st-igbo-world-festival-of-arts-and-culture/
http://www.frontiermuseum.org/1st-igbo-world-festival-of-arts-and-culture/
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.
Surprised to see Liberia had such a low number of Slaves
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I find it curious too. I think population density may have played a role. I'm also unsure if the territory of modern day Liberia had a slave port equivalent to Lagos, Porto Novo, Bonny etc.
No,this isn't true.
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my mom went to school next to one of the ports in Liberia, but Nigeria and Angola were on some other steeze the way they were getting it in with the slave stuff. From what I know of Liberia it was mainly the Kru tribe working with Europeans to capture slaves and or work on the ships as crew men (they say thats how they got their name), since they were skilled sea men. My tribe is located in Northen Liberia where Guinea, Liberia, and the Ivory Coast all meet, so I would think it would have been the interior tribes that were being kidnapped, while the coastal tribes would have been more beneficial to europeans in the regard of helping them move around the lands. Thats just my educated guess though.
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Psalm 149:5-9
The Yoruba info is not true. The Yorubas were major slave traders through their Oyo Empire. The Oyo Empire is one of the more well documented empires in the slave trade in part because their leaders were known to take trips to Europe during the slave trade. Contrary to what you have been taught that tribes trading their own people....false. Certain groups were set up to trading other groups, they were not trading their own people for 300 years. It was not some free for all, every man for himself. That is why when you look at old documents on the slave trade it always said that Africans sold Negroes. The Europeans knew that those were two different groups. Selling your own people by the tens of millions would be the definition of hustling backwards. There is actually a document with names and the tribes of slaves from various slave ships on another thread. I went though pages and it up to a 1000+ names before I stopped and did not find one documented Yoruba.
Marvel
Psalm 149:5-9
If you notice there were 4 identified Forest States. These were the empires that Esau traded with during the slave trade in that region. The Kingdom of Kongo is not on this map, but they were another empire that did slave trading from Congo/Angola.
Notice that these states were established around the exact same time that Esau began to do his conquering of the Americas. If you look up the Asante Empire, Dahomey Empire, Oyo Empire and Benin Empire. They all had strong partnerships with Esau. Those are the people in Africa that got rich off of the slave trade.
The Igbos came from the Nri Kingdom which began to decline because of attacks from to separate groups Igala and Benin which led to them being major victims of the slave trade, primarily being sold by the Benin Empire through what is identified in the slave trade as the Bight of Biafra. Again, this is well documented. That is why Igbos are the most heavily documented victims of the slave trade although they were not the only groups that were purposely targeted and victimized.
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never would have guessed they would have gotten some slaves from Mozambique (though it was a portuguese possession for a long time so I guess it would make sense)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.
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
If you notice there were 4 identified Forest States. These were the empires that Esau traded with during the slave trade in that region. The Kingdom of Kongo is not on this map, but they were another empire that did slave trading from Congo/Angola.
Notice that these states were established around the exact same time that Esau began to do his conquering of the Americas. If you look up the Asante Empire, Dahomey Empire, Oyo Empire and Benin Empire. They all had strong partnerships with Esau. Those are the people in Africa that got rich off of the slave trade.
The Igbos came from the Nri Kingdom which began to decline because of attacks from to separate groups Igala and Benin which led to them being major victims of the slave trade, primarily being sold by the Benin Empire through what is identified in the slave trade as the Bight of Biafra. Again, this is well documented. That is why Igbos are the most heavily documented victims of the slave trade although they were not the only groups that were purposely targeted and victimized.
It's important to note that not all Igbo were under the control of Nri Kingdom. Probably only a third were under the sway of Nri. Nri's power was more religious than political. Similar to Arochukwu's importance, although Arochukwu was more willing to use violent force to create hegemony in Igboland.
Igboland has never had a singular ruler. Even when polities like Nri and Arochukwu were around, many Igbo villages/clans were independent of both.