21.   The Garifuna are descendants of shipwrecked or escaped African slaves and South American Indians.

22.   The position of African slaves in the nascent American culture was no less troubling.

23.   The rise in churchgoing, meanwhile, has not pushed aside the traditional santeria, the voodoo-like black magic brought by African slaves.

24.   The sugar economy created the plantation system of Hawaii and imported Asian and other laborers just as cotton brought African slaves to the American South.

25.   The tradition is a New World resurgence of a Yoruba religion that arrived with African slaves.

26.   Though France granted permission, Canada could not afford the high prices of prized African slaves paid in the South.

27.   To the descendants of African slaves, it is a yet another insult.

28.   Waves of Indians, Creoles and African slaves have converged here, contributing their spiritual and mystical traditions to a yeasty cultural mix.

29.   When the Indian population was decimated by harsh treatment, African slaves were brought in.

30.   When the Portuguese brought African slaves to Brazil, the Africans were able to disguise their means of self-defense by telling slave masters that it was a dance.