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The American Descendants of Slavery movement was founded by Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore, [1] who co-host online ADOS radio shows. [3] Carnell has been an aide for two Democratic politicians, Senator Barbara Boxer and Congressman Robert Marion Berry. [3]
As of 2020, Osu descendants still face discrimination among the Igbo people. [9] Local campaigners against discrimination have aligned themselves with the global Black Lives Matter movement, comparing the treatment of slave descendants in Nigeria with the treatment of Black people in the United States. [10]
The first people of ancestry from what is now modern Nigeria to arrive in what is now the modern United States were brought by force as slaves. [11] These enslaved people were not called Nigerians but were known by their ethnic nations due to Nigeria not being a country until the early 1900s, after the slave trade was over.
African Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, Afro-Latin Americans, Black Canadians – descendants of mostly enslaved West and Central Africans brought to the United States, the Caribbean, Central America and South America during the Atlantic slave trade.
Today, many African Americans share ancestry with the Yoruba people. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] After the slavery abolition in 1865, many modern Nigerian immigrants of Yoruba ancestry have come to the United States starting in the mid-twentieth century to pursue educational opportunities in undergraduate and post-graduate institutions.
Descendants of enslaved island populations in the South became known as Gullah, or Geechee in Georgia, whose long separation from the mainland meant they retained much of their African heritage.
Residents of one of the South's last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants submitted signatures Tuesday, hoping to force a referendum on whether to reverse zoning changes that they ...
The "ideology of slavery", which can be defined as "a cultural system that justifies and legitimises a social order based on a social hierarchy inherited from slavery" persists today, prompting certain members of the political and economic elite who might be categorised as "descendants of slaves" to remain silent about their origins. [5]