In August 1619, a Black woman, known only as “Angela the Negar”, was the first enslaved African documented in America. They called her Angela because they had stolen her name, i.e. the first case of identity theft in the western world. As African Americans and West Africans (the two biggest victims of this insidious trade) remember this on the 400th anniversary of the Western slave trade, we in East Africa should not forget that the slave trade on the East Africa coast, perpetrated by the Arabs was of a longer period and probably more brutal than what transpired on the west coast of Africa.
In August 1619, a Black woman, known only as “Angela the Negar”, was the first enslaved African documented in America. They called her Angela because they had stolen her name, i.e. the first case of identity theft in the western world. As African Americans and West Africans (the two biggest victims of this insidious trade)…
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