The people in the belly of every slave ship were Africans from different countries of Africa!
Mr. Deacon,
To be precise no Black Americans were on any slave ship because Black Americans did not exist yet! Black Americans came into existence when the White American slave masters bred themselves with their slaves starting with the first wave of Africans. And, each succeeding kept changing into a NEW race of people known today as Black Americans descendants of plantation slaves. Then Pres. Lincoln outlawed plantation slavery in 1856, but by that time a NEW race of people was in existence that had never before existed.
So again, the people in the slave ships were all African people! That is a no-brainer!
How our stupidity and ignorance come into play is because we were led to think and believe that we are Africans, but we are not! There is no other Black American race on earth, but us Black Americans descendants of plantation slaves here in this country of White America because they were our slave masters.
