The Ancestral Spirit of Africa Speaks In A Quiet Voice
Jerel Shaw @jerelshaw Presently, I am finishing a book that I envision being published before the end of 2019. I find it a unique essay in the sense that the reader will find an interweaving of prolong dichotomy that separates the Africa roots from what we call Black American diaspora. It's been a long process of disenfranchising American Blacks from their ancestral roots. The book is not a history lesson on how blacks have through slavery have evolved from the motherland to a foreign land, but it is a commentary filled with flashes 'what if'. The transatlantic slave trade began in the 15th century, after the Portuguese started exploring the coast of West Africa. At first the number of enslaved Africans taken was small. In about 1650, however, with the development of plantations on the newly colonised Caribbean islands and American mainland, the trade grew. The slave for America until 1808 - that's nearly two centuries of shi...