31.   With African slaves to harvest the cane, they lived like grandees.

32.   While the Catholic church is growing, the great majority of Cubans still practice Afro-Cuban religions that were introduced into the country by African slaves.

33.   A small community of African slave descendants is about the only thing keeping one of the biggest gold mines in South America from opening.

34.   African slaves brought their ancestor worship to this Caribbean nation.

35.   At the U.N. conference, one of the issues is demands by descendants of African slaves for reparations.

36.   Bermuda is thought to be the first place where African slaves were brought in the Western Hemisphere.

37.   But some residents in the region, mostly home to the descendants of African slaves, accused Pastrana of abandoning them.

38.   Candomble, brought to Brazil by African slaves, is an animistic religion in which native African deities are worshipped.

39.   Creole-speaking Haitians are blacks descended from African slaves and have lived under French colonialism.

40.   Descendants of African slaves are seeking reparations.