Research which may provide support for a theory
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-so-many-african-americans-have-nigerian-ancestry/ar-BB17N5jM
The article basically states that there are more persons of Nigerian descent in the new world than one would think based solely on records of the slave trade.
What if they came here illegally after the Civil War?
If the extra numbers were bred in the new world, why pick only Nigerians? Is there any reason to believe they make better workers than people from the rest of West Africa? Is it likely that only one place in the new world practiced slave breeding and they got their slaves from one place rather than on the open market over centuries?
Suppose, instead, that Nigerian cultural and family circles had the idea to bring family over as illegal aliens, but the practice did not occur to others or spread to them? Perhaps at the time, there was some war or famine or epidemic happening in Nigeria which pressured people to leave, after the Civil War ended here, and they got in illegally?
Or, perhaps the Nigerians who sold us the slaves kept some sort of tabs on them and became jealous of them when they were suddenly free men living in a wealthy, developed nation with comparatively less famine, disease, deadly animals, and warfare?
The article basically states that there are more persons of Nigerian descent in the new world than one would think based solely on records of the slave trade.
What if they came here illegally after the Civil War?
If the extra numbers were bred in the new world, why pick only Nigerians? Is there any reason to believe they make better workers than people from the rest of West Africa? Is it likely that only one place in the new world practiced slave breeding and they got their slaves from one place rather than on the open market over centuries?
Suppose, instead, that Nigerian cultural and family circles had the idea to bring family over as illegal aliens, but the practice did not occur to others or spread to them? Perhaps at the time, there was some war or famine or epidemic happening in Nigeria which pressured people to leave, after the Civil War ended here, and they got in illegally?
Or, perhaps the Nigerians who sold us the slaves kept some sort of tabs on them and became jealous of them when they were suddenly free men living in a wealthy, developed nation with comparatively less famine, disease, deadly animals, and warfare?
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I am not sure how wide spread the illegal immigration problem was before the mid 20th century. Granted it was much easier back up through the early 1900s to enter by a sea port on a ship. 0 -
Some suggest large numbers of people entered from Canada in the first part of the 19th century, some of them fleeing the potato blight. 0
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