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Query III Why are the Negroes from the Gold Coast and Whydah the most valuable, and so necessary for the subsistence of sugar plantations? Answer “Gold Coast and Whydah Negroes are hardy, and are enured to labour in their own country; and will go to the hard work necessary in sugar plantations, as soon as they are purchased by the planters; which is not the case with other Negroes from Angola, Calabar,…
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More Info “Some of the kidnapping tales that still linger on this coast, show the straits into which, at times, men were driven for a cargo. At Annobom, where the people are Negro Portuguese, they are ever looking forward to hearing mass from the mouth of a priest. A Spaniard learning this, dressed up a…
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“Yahoodie, a place of great trade.” This place is reported to be inhabited by one of the lost tribes of Israel, possibly an immigration from the tribe of Judah. Yahooda, in African Arabic, signifies Judah. Yahoodee signifies Jew. it is not impossible, that many of the lost tribes of Israel may be found dispersed in…
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“Hase was a mathematics professor at Wittenberg since 1719 and started working for Homann Heirs, a map publishing firm run by the descendants of the renowned German cartographer Johann Baptiste Homann, in the 1730s. His map of Africa, based on “the latest reports and observations,” shows some regions or kingdoms, but not all of them…
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More Info “Afterwards, the large owners of feudal estates introduced with the white peasantry a certain number of black slaves, by whom a slight strain of dark blood was transmitted to the other settlers. The Jews expelled from Portugal at the beginning of the sixteenth century were also condemned to slavery and distributed over various…
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Map DATE LINK COUNTRY SPELLING 1707 AD Click Here France Juda 1710 AD Click Here England FidaWhiddah 1720 AD Click Here Amsterdam Juda 1727 AD Click Here England FidaWhiddah 1737 AD Click Here Germany Juda 1740 AD Click Here Netherlands Juda 1743 AD Click Here Germany Juda 1747 AD Click Here England Juda Whidah 1750…
More Info French (original) “Whydah (Fida, Hwedah, Ouida, Juda ou Ajuda) est une ville ancienne, fréquentée depuis le xvi” siècle par les négriers portugais, qui lui donnèrent son nom. Ses habitants étaient dits les ‘Judalques’, et on les considérait en effet comme un reste de tribus dispersées d’Israël; au Nord, la rivière d’Allala, dont le…
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Source: Wikimedia Commons Creator: Homann Heirs Year: 1743 AD More Info This is a 1743 map released by Homann Heirs that shows The Kingdom of Judah on West Coast of Africa. This map is from Germany. Homann Heirs (1730 – 1848) were a map publishing house based in Nurenburg, Germany, in the middle to late…
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Source: Princeton University Creator: Herman Moll Date: 1710 AD Title: To the Right Honourable Charles, Earl of Peterborow and Monmouth, &c This Map of Africa . . . Is Most Humbly Dedicated. More Info The map shows the names Whiddah and Fida, which are alternate spellings for Whydah and Juda. Just above the kingdom of…
