WI: Slaves in America allowed to keep identies and heritage

hmm...I think the African-American rights movement would have started sooner, along with slave revolts.Also, I think now we would probably have many more African sounding names.
 

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In the Carribeans the whites ended up learning Voodoo and African languages. I remember the case of this white woman in Jamaica who was from Haiti and learned Voodoo while being raised there. (she was someone in some hauntin legend, was killed by her slaves due to being a bitch to them)

Keep in mind that Caribbean slaves 'retained' their culture because turnover was so high -- they didn't survive long enough to need to be Christianized.

Carib slavery was brutal in a way that even the brutality of Deep South slavery didn't quite measure up to.
 
Keep in mind that Caribbean slaves 'retained' their culture because turnover was so high -- they didn't survive long enough to need to be Christianized.

Carib slavery was brutal in a way that even the brutality of Deep South slavery didn't quite measure up to.

I don't think that was quite the reason - I think it's more of 'most of the population of those regions was blacks with a few whites' as opposed to the Deep South US having a counterbalance with a white northern us regions to keep the US from turning into "an anglo brazil" as some say.

EDIT: I remember a book suggesting that too so I could always be wrong re. this.

What is the language and culture and religion of the millions of African slaves taken to the Middle East?

think most of those slaves were Swahili speaking areas as Arabs got their slaves from a different area. I also think Arabs castrated more of their Slaves (im not sure about that)
 
I don't think that was quite the reason - I think it's more of 'most of the population of those regions was blacks with a few whites' as opposed to the Deep South US having a counterbalance with a white northern us regions to keep the US from turning into "an anglo brazil" as some say.

EDIT: I remember a book suggesting that too so I could always be wrong re. this.



think most of those slaves were Swahili speaking areas as Arabs got their slaves from a different area. I also think Arabs castrated more of their Slaves (im not sure about that)

didnt the swahili only start as a way for europeans and africans could communicate
 
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