Back Through the Veil II: The Ancestral Histories of Several African-American Families and How They Survived from Their Arrivals in Central Louisiana to the Middle of the 20th Century

From the moment that Africans were captured and forced into slavery, their captors used a number of methods to completely remove every bit of their native languages, culture, African names, social connections and native pride. What was left was a set of people who had no idea how they got here, no sense of community, no nationalism, and no way to form any type of resistance against their captors. Their only bond was their skin color. Over time, and centuries of persistent brainwashing, that...