Afram (AAdos) migratory, maroon, slave population, emigration, slave revolts etc..maps

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Don’t know if mentioned but there Afram descendants in Trinidad as well known as Merikens
 

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this is a musical map of the centers of boogie piano players but it obviously coincides with migration patterns of aframs from the south west/gulf coast


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In April 2014, the British Vice Admiral released the carefully worded proclamation encouraging enslaved Africans in the USA to seek their freedom by “entering into His Majesty's service.” It was at the height of the “War of 1812,” a conflict between Great Britain and the United States which took place between 1812 and 1815. The enslaved Africans seized the opportunity for freedom “by any means necessary” and from areas including Virginia, Georgia, Maryland and South Carolina they fled the plantations where they were enslaved to provide valuable information to the British and disrupt the plantation economy with the absence of their coerced labour. The formerly enslaved Africans in America who escaped and joined the British became members of the British Corps of Colonial Marines. Following the War of 1812 some of these former soldiers and their families established Trinidad’s “Meriken” communities.



The Corps of Colonial Marines, primarily from the areas along the Atlantic coast, from Chesapeake Bay to Georgia, were engaged in significant military action between Canada and the USA. They had extensive knowledge of waterways, creeks and river routes of the US South which was essential during the numerous battles, skirmishes and raids during the War of 1812. The Colonial Marines supported the British forces who burned Washington, D.C. in 1814. They assisted Britain’s Southern Coastal Campaign by guarding the British Army’s right flank during the invasion and Battle of New Orleans in 1815. When the Treaty of Ghent (February 17- 1815) ended the War of 1812, the Corps of Colonial Marines was transferred to the British colony of Bermuda. First stationed at the Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda they agreed to be settled in Trinidad.

WORDS FROM MURPHY BROWNE: April 2019
 
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