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Essay / Analysis: Finding Your Roots - 1174
Also, where we grew up is not actually where our families are from. According to Hochschild, “Traders are kidnapping people,” signs of human trafficking across the United States are leading to language changes. “The Kikongo language was traced by linguists to the Gullah dialect spoken by Black Americans in South Carolina and Georgia,” meaning Black Americans came from all over the country. They had the opportunity to get a sense of what it was like to consider these owners as their leader and master. The Nas family came from all over the United States and primarily from the American South. Nas grew up in New York but his mother was from North Carolina and most of his ancestors actually came from the same place going back 5 generations. Most of them believe they grew up on the same plantation and were very close to each other. But most of them share the last name Little. I think it was because their owner named them all Little. The owners owned all 5 generations of Nas' family, the owner actually was and they were all kept close together and traced back to their relationship to white people not just all black people.