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The Taking: My Blood is the Map
Before Episode One, meet the man telling the story. Mr. Black History took a DNA test, and what Ancestry sent back wasn't a pie chart — it was the map of this entire series. Eighty-eight percent African across twenty-two peoples: Igboland (16%), the Gbe peoples of Benin (9%), Western Bantu and forest peoples (9%), Hausa and Fulani, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Yorubaland, the Mandé world of Mali and Senegal, Cameroon, Liberia, Zimbabwe, the Luba of Congo. His blood covers nearly every coast the slave ships loaded from — the Bight of Biafra, the Gold Coast, the Slave Coast, the Windward Coast, Kongo…
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