Our Ancestors in the Fellowship of the Free () von Adrian Labor

Foreword............................................................................................................................................ 5

Notes from the Authors................................................................................................................... 7

1. Ancestors as Beacons of Free communities in Africa, America, and the Caribbean...... 11

Recreating Our Story Across Generations and Centuries....................................................... 12

Our Families and Their Last Christmas in America .................................................................. 13

2. A View unto Sierra Lioa West Africa in the period 1585 - 1617.......................................... 16

3. Our Roots from Guinea to British America 1650 - 1700's ................................................. 23

4 Our Earliest Ancestors and the World's Context from 140.................................................28

5. Brief history of Empires in West Africa, North Africa & Iberia Peninsula......................... 30

The Berber Empire (Moors of Al Andalus and North Africa) (1050- 1147)............................ 31

Bakongo (Upper Angola) Kingdom: (1390 - 1910).................................................................... 32

Genoese - A Shipping Trade Empire............................................................................................ 33

The Portuguese Kingdom, its African Empire and Brazil ( 1415 -1999 )................................ 34

Kingdom of Castile and the Spanish Empire (1492 - 1976.)..................................................... 35

6. The Moors and African Navigators in the Second and Fourth Voyages of Columbus.... 37

7. Early Africans in ( Xaymaca ) Spanish Jamaica - Moors, Black Spanish and African ....... 40

8. Morgan and Barnett from Jamaica- Their Family Journey Stories .................................... 43

9. Family by fate, by struggles, by marriage: 'Fambul-in-laws'................................................. 46

Family Genealogy Tree .................................................................................................................... 48

The Archers and The Elliotts............................................................................................................ 52

Other Upcoming Family Research.................................................................................................. 56