Would you agree that African culture survived more strongly in the Caribbean colonies than in North America? ... Kinship and family ties provided the personal and collective character of Africans and when taken beyond their shores they became rootless and "all at sea". ... However, in both the Caribbean and in North America it would appear that a certain amount of assimilation took place if the slaves were to survive in their new "homeland". ... Like America, slave religion in the Caribbean shared a great deal of the same features. ... Like America the Caribbean h...

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Cannibalism A cannibal is a person who eats human flesh. Throughout history, many individuals and societies in all parts of the world have committed acts of cannibalism. Archaeologists have found evidence of cannibalism that occurred more than 500,000 years ago. Today, cannibalism no longer ex...

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He went from Africa, to the Caribbean, to the Americas, to the West Indies, and also spent a great deal of his time out at sea. ... The book editor Robert Alison commented that, "His years of slavery in the West Indies and life as a free man in Europe and at sea had given him a dual identity and made him recognize that though he was culturally an Englishman, he had become a son of Africa" (Alison 4). ... After being at sea for about three years, Equiano comments that, "From the various scenes I had beheld on shipboard, I soon grew a stranger to terror of every kind, and was, in that respec...

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Nowadays, there are lots and lots of people suffering from poverty all over the world. The gap between the rich and the poor is still increasing. Day by day, the rich become richer and richer, while the poor become poorer and poorer. The situation now is very serious. Well, there is a hot wire. ...

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Winds and currents also ensured that Africans carried to Brazil came overwhelmingly from Angola, with south-east Africa and the Bight of Benin playing smaller roles, and that Africans carried to North America, including the Caribbean, left from mainly West Africa, with the Bights of Biafra and Benin and the Gold Coast predominating. Just as Brazil overlapped on the northern system by drawing on the Bight of Benin, the English, French, and Dutch carried some slaves from northern Angola into the Caribbean. ...

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A trip from Africa to Brazil took a month and two months from the coast of West Africa to the Caribbean and North America. ... It is not known exactly how many Africans died at sea during the Middle Passage while estimations vary from 25 to 50 million. ...

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