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The beginning of Wisdom is knowing
who you are. Draw near and listen.
The MAAFA, Kiswahili for "Disaster" or "Terrible Occurrence", happend to my family during an unknown
time before the birth of my GGG grandmother (date unknown, place of birth, Virginia); and before
the date birth of my GG grandfather, 1829, Tennessee.
Slaves for the Trans-Atlantic trade were initially sourced in Senegambia and the Windward Coast. Around 1650 the trade
moved to west-central Africa (the Kingdom of the Kongo and neighboring Angola). Senegambia includes the Wolof, Mandinka, Sereer
and Fula; Upper Gambia has the Temne, Mende, and Kissi; the Windward Coast has the Vai, De, Bassa, and Grebo. Wow! The
possibility of being a decendant from the Wolof, or a "Mandinka Warrior" or Mende, is quite exciting.
But the MAFFA of my family appears to have begun at the Triangular Trade route (West
Central Africa), Congo Republic, Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, and Angola (route in red
on the map) to North American Slave Port in Virginia, Tennessee (Columbia, Memphis, Collierville) Mississippi
(Aberdeen, Clarksdale, Coahoma, Egypt, Lula, Okolona, Portsmith, Tunica, Washington; Alabama; Arkansas (Earle,
Crittenden, Blytheville and Tyronza County, Little Rock); Indiana, (Lake and McHenry County); Illinois (Cook
and Dupage Counties), California (Los Angeles, San Diego), London; Nevada; Ohio; Michigan (Kalamazoo, Detroit),
Washington D.C., Florida (West Palm Beach), Hawaii (Maui, Wailuku, Hilo, Molokai) and ...
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