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[Repost as the old thread died and I didn't get a closure.]
I recently made a DNA test. My father was from Sierra Leone and I found out something quite extraordinary: from his side of the family I had some Papuan and Native American from the Amazon. As we all know, these were not places from which people travelled to other countries or continents. How on earth could a Papuan from Oceania or an Amazonian from South America end up in Africa? These were all countries that were visited by the Portuguese who had slaves, right? Yet I'm not aware from which countries they had slaves from. I hope this will spark some interesting conversation. Thank you.
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Inb4 the /pol/tards.
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>>2792798
How much papuan and amazon do you have? We talking a great-grandparent? Or further down the line?
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>>2792805
Tell me about it... Hopefully they won't fill the whole thread.
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>>2792819
About 1% of each so about 6-7 generations back? The late 1800s approximately. That was a time in the history of Sierra Leone when Creole people (ex-slaves) went back to West Africa. It would be very possible for me to have even one Creole in my family as they comprise about 5% of the country's population, implying that my descendants would come from a variety of places as they are the descendants of freed African American, West Indian and Liberated African slaves. Perhaps the Portuguese were the slave owners (they visited all Sierra Leone, Brazil/South America area and Papua-New-Guinea).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone_Creole_people
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could be a glitch or some racemixed sailor who retired there
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>>2792798
>"How on earth could a Papuan from Oceania or an Amazonian from South America end up in Africa?"
Slave ships, probably portuguese since they slave trade operations in those places
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>>2792842
Probably an explorer or trader who picked himself up a local from south america and brought her and his half-native kids home to the old world.
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Mixed Afro-American who migrated to Liberia?
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>>2792798
>"My father was from Sierra Leone"
>having a black father
>knowing whom your father is
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