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“Anụ ọkụ n’ụlọ anaghị amaghị ọkụ dị n’èzí” (The animal that lives in the fire at home does not know the fire outside). This saying captures the shock the Igbo felt when the Atlantic slave trade dragged them from the familiar fires of their hearths into the flames of foreign bondage. Between the 16th and…
Nancy Daniels was an African-born Barbadian ex-slave of probable Igbo descent who was taken from her home and forced into slavery in Barbados. She was born before 1760 and was brought to Barbados around 1780 when she was in her twenties. Her life was full of hardship, but she showed great strength. Her story is…
Nancy Daniels, an African-born Barbadian ex-slave, represents the enduring presence of Igbo heritage in the Caribbean. Born around 1760, she survived the brutal Middle Passage to Barbados in the 1780s, where she was enslaved to M. D’Azevedo. After his death, she became the property of the Daniels family and remained with them even after…
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