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“Only ~11 million survived the passage… and many more died in the early years of captivity…

The result was often the creation of new and distinctive populations in the Americas.”

This line from a major genetic study on African ancestry in the Americas reveals a massive contradiction at its core.

According to the transatlantic slave trade narrative, millions died, and survivors were scattered across plantations, broken into isolated language groups, and stripped of ancestral memory.

That is the definition of a bottleneck event a collapse in population size that should, by all biological models, result in low genetic diversity and founder effects.

But instead, Soulaan people show extremely high genetic diversity and no consistent founder patterns. In fact, North and South American mtDNA diversity scores match or exceed those of their supposed African source regions.

That’s not a diaspora. That’s a divergence.

The ethnonym “Soulaan,” coined by its creators T-Roy, Maroc, and Dwayne Coleman (Midnight), stands as a powerful expression of identity for a distinct group within the Black American community. More than a simple ethnic designation, Soulaan is a declaration of the unique cultural, historical, and ancestral roots of Black Americans who descend from the survivors of chattel enslavement in the United States. Chattle slavery is our history not an identity. This term speaks to the indigenous Black population of North America and places emphasis on their complex history, distinct from the narratives often used to define Blackness solely in terms of African ancestry. The roots of the word “Soulaan” are significant, symbolizing the deeply ingrained cultural association with “soul,” which has long been central to the identity of Black Americans. Amorocco or Amerrukah being a sovereign anti-colonial name for America.…. Click here for the full article