Dear Sara, I have long been shouting in the wilderness, that slave ships/slaves did not arrive in the US via non stop cruses, but were first sold in in Caribbean. Seasoning is not something that is mentioned, or hardly ever mentioned when Slavery is discussed. That was a period of breaking the newly captured slaves. If they had the misfortune to survive the crossing, they were first broken in the islands. The misconception of the Triangle trade is that slaves were acquired in Africa, ships stopped in the Caribbean for provisions and rum and then proceeded to the US. The truth is , newly captured slaves were sold in the Caribbean, and 'Seasoned' slaves were bought, then taken to the US for resale. Every African American has an African Caribbean connection. Records show that that St. Thomas and Curacao were major Seasoning Markets, as the Dutch, owned plantation on these islands, and owned the Forts in Africa, and the ships they did not have to use a middleman. So the possibility of a caribbean connection is not that far-fetched. A Jewish connection is also possible as Brandenburg Company which managed these stations were started and financed by Portuguese Jews from Bergen and Gluckstadt. In genealogy one must keep an open mind and expected the unexpected. Ann ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Sara Weiss" <ksara@tesco.net> Reply-To: CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com To: CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: MSNBC News Link: DNA tackles a familys mysteries Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 23:04:05 +0100 I'll tell you something else. Although I am mad keen to find out my Jewish ancestry, possibly thro DNA - but unlikely according to Richard, thanks Richard for saving me time and trouble - I have two black ancestors too. Accounts for my very frizzy hair and love of music mayhaps! Reading "Roots" by Alex Haley has now, more than this website, made me start to wonder about them. One was a slave who bought his freedom - West Indies or America I do not know. The other was from the Caribbean but I do not know where. My husband and I are similar in looks and he and some of my children have the same features. His whole family are from Anguilla BWI and so one wonders if there is a Black connection . Are we descended from the same line. All slaves in the Caribbean came from Ethiopa - Christian ?Muslim and Jewish (Falasha). But, he is also Jewish, so we may have descended from the same person, way way back, in Israel. But then how could the appearance be so similar after 3,000 years!!! The black line is more probable. But the likelihood of my ancestors coming also from Anguilla is almost prepostrous. Who knows? You'd need to be rich to find out!! One just keeps these things under one;s hat but nothing much can be done to find out more - unless one is the subject of some far out TV documentary!!! However, I am just pleased to be part of all this, in a sort of 'inner' way. Know what I mean? Sara Weiss ----- Original Message ----- From: <richwyn@idirect.com> To: <CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 11:44 PM Subject: MSNBC News Link: DNA tackles a familys mysteries > Richard Allicock sent you this MSNBC News Link: > > Message: > Sara Weisss re-appearane on the DNA Issue was quite timely. Here is an MSNBC account of some-one trying to use DNA to fill the gaps in his reearch. There is also a link to the African Genetics for Genealogy company, Afrigenesis for those who are interested. Richard > > ** DNA tackles a familys mysteries ** > DNA testing is adding a scientific twist to the search for family roots, one of the worlds most popular pursuits. Follow MSNBCs Alan Boyle on the genetic trail. > > http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_email.asp?/news/682153.asp > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Check out the hour's top stories on MSNBC.com <http://www.msnbc.com> > > MSNBC does not confirm the E-mail address of the sender of this MSNBC News Link. For your information, the sender's IP Address is: 207.46.245.18 > > > ==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== > For information on individual islands, research aids, island bulletin boards or history please visit the CaribbeanGenWeb project at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~caribgw/ > ==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== Before posting a query, check to see if the question has already been asked on the List. All messages posted to CARIBBEAN-L are archived by date or thread at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/CARIBBEAN. You can search the archives at http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=CARIBBEAN. "Sharing the information." _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail