My African Ancestry DNA Results Part 1

The Haplogroup L3 arose in eastern Africa about 60,000 years ago. The Atlantic slave trade carried it to the Americas as well; various branches of L3 are found today among more than 25% of the Afrikans in America.

Haplogroup L3e originated about 45,000 years ago in central Africa or present-day Sudan. Today L3e is most common in central and southeast Africa. It is also found among African Americans and about one-third of Afrikans in Brazil.

L3e1 originated about 32,000 years ago in central Africa, and spread eastward into present-day Kenya during the migration of Bantu-speaking farmers that began about 4,000 years ago. The haplogroup then spread south into Mozambique, where it is today. L3e1 is not found in other areas associated with the slave trade – and historical records indicate about 1 million people were transported from directly from Mozambique, so Afrikans in amerikkka with the L3E1 haplogroup are likely to descend from ancestresses who lived in Mozambique.

Slave trade logs note about 427.000 people from Southeast Africa are estimated to have arrived in the Americas. The greatest number by far in Brazil. For the US, the estimated number would be around 7500. This means a million-people left yet less than half arrived. Within North amerikkka, the greatest numbers of people from South East Afrika went to northern states & virginia. However, some went to the carolinas and louisiana Almost all of them were from Mozambique. Southeast Afrika had the smallest amount of enslaved Afrikans brought to the Western Hemisphere The highest share is calculated for Brazil with 7,7% while the lowest share is 1,7% for the USA.

Usually enslaved Afrikans from Mozambique were referred to as simply “Mozambique” (which is also the name of the main slave port and the former capital in the very north of the country). “Makua” was also used to reference the main ethnic group of the enslaved Afrikans located in northern Mozambique. The USA received most Southeast African captives during the earliest time periods (1650-1750), while for Brazil it’s much more concentrated in just one single time period (1800-1850.)

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