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black-culture: Throughout the Americas resistance to slavery and the plantation system took the form of runaway slave communities called maroons, quilombos or mocambos. In the United States, at least 50 maroons existed between 1672 and 1864. In the late 1600s large amounts of African slaves fled the British American colonies to Spanish Florida to establish maroons. Establishing an alliance with Seminole Indians, by 1822 it was estimated the maroons of Florida had a population over 800. However, the existence of free and armed black communities was a major concern to American slaveholders. An effort to relocate the Seminole Indians(and possible re-enslavement of Blacks) led to rebellion. The Black Seminole rebellion in Florida evolved into a maroon war that inspired the country’s largest slave rebellion. Eugene Genovese claims the “most impressive slave revolts in the hemisphere proceeded in alliance with maroons or took place in periods in which maroon activity was directly undermining the slave regime or inspiring the slaves by example.” Over 400 slaves rebelled on plantations and fled to join the Seminoles in their pursuit of freedom from US opression.
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Throughout the Americas resistance to slavery and the plantation system took the form of runaway slave communities called maroons, quilombos or mocambos. In the United States, at least 50 maroons existed between 1672 and 1864. In the late 1600s large amounts of African slaves fled the British American colonies to Spanish Florida to establish maroons. Establishing an alliance with Seminole Indians, by 1822 it was estimated the maroons of Florida had a population over 800. However, the existence of free and armed black communities was a major concern to American slaveholders. An effort to relocate the Seminole Indians(and possible re-enslavement of Blacks) led to rebellion. The Black Seminole rebellion in Florida evolved into a maroon war that inspired the country’s largest slave rebellion. Eugene Genovese claims the “most impressive slave revolts in the hemisphere proceeded in alliance with maroons or took place in periods in which maroon activity was directly undermining the slave regime or inspiring the slaves by example.” Over 400 slaves rebelled on plantations and fled to join the Seminoles in their pursuit of freedom from US opression.

mindkontrol: Waistbeads “It is the beads that makes the buttocks to shake” - Yoruba saying Women of the African diaspora have, for centuries, displayed the beauty and femininity of the female form through the use of waistbeads. The practice varies, but one main theme (among many) emerges. Among Yoruba, there is a belief that the waist beads posses strong erotic appeal, and serves to lure their spouse or an interested man to the bed of a fetching Yoruba woman… I will let you be the judge…
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Waistbeads

“It is the beads that makes the buttocks to shake” - Yoruba saying

Women of the African diaspora have, for centuries, displayed the beauty and femininity of the female form through the use of waistbeads. The practice varies, but one main theme (among many) emerges. Among Yoruba, there is a belief that the waist beads posses strong erotic appeal, and serves to lure their spouse or an interested man to the bed of a fetching Yoruba woman…

I will let you be the judge…

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