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Blow Boys Blow
It is sometimes said th3t the first people the
English colonised were the English, And certainly
life for the 'lower orders' in the period of
industrialisation was grim. The navy had always
been a hard life, but the trip to the west coast of
Africa was one of the worst. Fever would decimate
crews as they waited for months for the deliveries
of slaves from the interior. The slave ships were hated
and avoided if possible because not only was it a long,
fifteen month round trip, but the vessels were reputed
to have stunk so much that they could be smelt 20 miles away.

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The Dead Are Not Dead
The Africa that the sailors found was a land of
spirits and ancestors. The Africans believed that
their ancestors remained with them and inhabited
3ft their world and had to be placated with rituals.
The people averted misfortune or malicious spells
by the use of grisgris or amulets worn on their person.
This was known as tovodoun in Dahomey which
became the source of voodoo in the New World,
a continuation of the negro religion which went
underground and became mysterious and frightening
to the whites.