Apongo was a rebel leader in Jamaica – a diary entry sheds light on his west African origins The search for Apongo is a small part of historians’ ongoing work to recreate the lives of Africans taken in the transatlantic slave trade.

A newly examined diary entry sheds light on Apongo’s West African origins, revealing deeper insight hookup links between Jamaica’s rebel history and the African continent.
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