MAAFA.MUMBWILA
GLOBAL MAAFA TRANSHIPMENT
#noTAST do not call it:
triangular trade
slave trade
transatlantic slave trade
Domestic MAAFA TRANSHIPMENTS
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“Salt water slaves” vs. inter-american ‘traded’ slaves.
AFRO-BOSTON & THE HARBOR
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Mainstream Resources -mostly records kept by European (in)accuracy & (in)completeneses.
https://www.slavevoyages.org/
https://www.slavevoyages.org/past/database/oceans-of-kinfolk
https://www.slavevoyages.org/american/database#timelapse
https://www.middlepassageproject.org/
(aside from maafa in east Africa)
Begins in Europe. Sugar desire. 1400s to mid 1800s. largest forced human migration ever. history’s greatest miracle to survive.
Spain and Portugal (Italians make connection of Agric. with Navigation and avoid Medit. because of Ottoman Empire)
GO to Africa (despite older african - Europe trade commerce)
FIND federations, nations states…not on coast.
24mn children, women and men taken from homes…transported by land and water to coast. half survive to be put on ships. 12mn. 2mn die in Atlantic ocean. 10mn arrive in ‘americans’. 1/2mn come directly to U.S. (not to mention inter-American trade).
largest permanent removal from home family and state. imposed. was not complete or completely successful.
social, cultural, physical, emotional and psychological near-death state.
generational enslavement followed.
labor camps (‘plantations & farms”)
Thom. Jefferson’s recipe for a nation: 1) land and 2) a female enslaved african…
Bight of Benin was also Goun and the Ayizo
Bight of Benin (slave coast) was fon, yoruba edo esan
“Salt water africans”