Yoruba did not come to the U.S. in any significant numbers at all. I can go into the historical reasons for this for an entire book length, but I'll leave it at this: the U.S. abolished the Atlantic slave trade in 1808 as protectionism for the U.S. interstate slave trade because untrained fresh slaves were so much cheaper than native born slaves -- and there was this enormous territory of the Lousisiana Purchase -- made by Jefferson, who made all his cash from selling into the interstate slave trade -- that had come open for vast agricultural enterprise. The Yoruba people were not on the market as slaves until the fall of the Oyó Kingdom at the end of the 18th Century. The Yoruba went to CUBA, which had not had a sugar industry until relatively late in the 18th century, and to the Bahia region of Brasil. But they did not come here in any numbers at all.
Nor did they migrate out of Egypt to West Africa.
Sheesh. There is more bs put out about the Yoruba than any other group of Africans other than the Pharaonic Egyptians. The Yoruba themselve, as they will tell you, will help you believe any bs about themselves, as well as maybe even believe it themselves.
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Date: 2009-03-01 08:11 pm (UTC)Yoruba did not come to the U.S. in any significant numbers at all. I can go into the historical reasons for this for an entire book length, but I'll leave it at this: the U.S. abolished the Atlantic slave trade in 1808 as protectionism for the U.S. interstate slave trade because untrained fresh slaves were so much cheaper than native born slaves -- and there was this enormous territory of the Lousisiana Purchase -- made by Jefferson, who made all his cash from selling into the interstate slave trade -- that had come open for vast agricultural enterprise. The Yoruba people were not on the market as slaves until the fall of the Oyó Kingdom at the end of the 18th Century. The Yoruba went to CUBA, which had not had a sugar industry until relatively late in the 18th century, and to the Bahia region of Brasil. But they did not come here in any numbers at all.
Nor did they migrate out of Egypt to West Africa.
Sheesh. There is more bs put out about the Yoruba than any other group of Africans other than the Pharaonic Egyptians. The Yoruba themselve, as they will tell you, will help you believe any bs about themselves, as well as maybe even believe it themselves.
Love, C.