Happy Birthday in advance
Habib

Prince Obrien-Coker wrote:

> Now that the search for those Gambian Pioneers in America seems to be abated
> and I was wondering whether List members could help in answering these two
> questions:
> 1.) Who was the first Gambian ON RECORD to have gone VOLUNTARILY to America
> and when was that?
> (Note: It is well known that a slave must have been the first Gambia. By the
> word VOLUNTARILY, I mean to have paid a passage to cross the Atlantic.)
> Clue: Why are there so many Gambians in Georgia?
> The Second question is more a conjecture; there is no concrete proof to it
> like the first question. As History told us, there were 4 major slave
> insurrections and plots in U.S. history led by: Gabriel Prosser, Denmark
> Vesey,
> Nat Turner  and "The first white man to have lost his life for the
> freedom of the black people"(Malcolm X), John Brown. It is amazing how many
> of us were singing "John Brown's body" at school without knowing, who the
> hell, he was.
> 2.) What were the names of the two "supposed" Gambians who were among the
> ringleaders in Denmark Vesey's conspiracy?
>
> These two questions are merely to find out how much we Gambians know about
> ourselves in the history of other nations.
>
> I will give the answers on my BIRTHDAY, Thursday 24/02/2000, but I would
> first want to see your answers.
>
> Prince Coker
>
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