POLI SCI 277 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: African Diaspora, Kongo Language, Traditional African Religion
29 Aug 2016
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Slaves would be taken back to portugal, from west africa. There were approximately 10 million slaves and only 500,000 went to the us. Most slaves went to brazil and the caribbean. This led to an increase in polygamy (think about other reasons as to. Africa, because they were of trade in why this may be) Decline in african populationon africa at least. Well, if we remember the location, it was closest to the americas. This is where the first slaves were taken from. Because there was a higher population of africans. In 1667-1713 less than 5% of slaves were from senegambia. This is because the africans demanded a high price for slaves and also There was a lot of revolt; so ships were pirated and captured. Brazil: kikongo catechism in the 17th centurythere was a book of words and phrases about the language used in slave trade. Basically, there was a mix of languages put together when trading in.
