“We can be assured that in this instance ‘Coromantee’ referred to a sizable Akan presence, granted the foregoing cultural evidence. Demographically, an average of 40 percent of the Africans imported to Barbados came from the Gold Coast between 1650 and the 1710s, and a historical aggregate of at least 136,000 Africans came from the Gold…

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“The Akan never constituted a majority among other African cultural groups shipped to various parts of the Americas, including Jamaica, throughout much of the ‘slave trade’ (henceforth, ‘international enslavement enterprise’). However, their leadership skills in war and political organization, expertise in medicinal plant use and…

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“In Virginia enslaved Igbo certainly were the most numerous group of African slaves in the colony, and they deeply influenced the development of early Afro-Virginia culture. In the two other major plantation regions of the American South–coastal South Carolina and Georgia (the Carolina Lowcountry), and Louisiana along the lower…

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“Jamaica was the single most important location of the transatlantic Igbo diaspora. Nearly a quarter-million slaves from the Bight of Biafra, or one-quarter of the Biafra trade’s total (and fully one-third of those captives shipped from the three main coastal slave-trading entrepots), wound up on the sugar plantations and other farms as well…

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