It is likely that the document was written for Young was written for expel Black Caribs rebels because in reality, we know that no slave ship came to the island never directly from Africa (nor any of the dozens of registered vessels that crashed between 1630 and 1680 crashed into the island or anywhere close, and are registered all ships "triumphant" and crashed during those years) and also the slave ships that came to the Americas were laden with slaves from different areas and ethnic groups from Africa with their own languages, to try to prevent slaves speak to each other and that can joining in a riot or revolt would endanger slavery. The slaves did not come from a single village, as Young tried to convince. So, according to some authors, basing on oral tradition of the Black Caribs and Garifuna, they are descendants of Caribbeans with the African origins Efik (Nigeria-Cameroon residents), Ibo (Nigerian), Fons (residents between Benin - Nigeria), Ashanti (from Ashanti Region, in central Ghana), Yoruba (resident in Togo, Benin, Nigeria) and Kongo (resident in Gabon, Congo, DR Congo and Angola), obtained in the coastal regions of West and Central Africa by Spanish and Portuguese traders of slaves. This slaves were exported to other Caribbean islands, from where emigrated or were captured (they or his descendents) to Sain Vicent.[13] By this way, the anthropologist and historian Garifuna Belizean Sebastian R. Cayetano says African ancestors of the Garifuna are from West African "specifically of the Yoruba, Ibo and Ashanti tribes, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, to mention only a few".[14] To Roger Bastide, the Garifuna almost inaccessible fortress of Northeast Saint Vincent integrated constantly to Yoruba, Fon, Fanti-Ashanti and Kongo fugitives.[15] This African origins are true at least in the masculine gender. For the female gender, the origins comes from the union of black slaves with Caribs.[13] Based on 18th-century English documents, Ruy Galvao de Andrade Coelho suggests that came from Nigeria, Gold Coast, Dahomei, Congo "and other West African regions".[16] At the beginning of the 18th century the population in Saint Vicent was already mostly black and although during this century there were extensive mixtures and black people and Carib amerindians, always kept the existence of a racially pure Caribbean group, which was called Red or Yellow Caribs to differentiate the Black Caribs.[1]
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