A Man of Significance Rapp Doris Gaines
A Man of Significance Rapp Doris Gaines It's 1619, and fourteen-year-old John Gowen's world was just destroyed. John, and 350 other Angolans, were captured as spoils of war by Portugal, loaded onto…
Specifikacia A Man of Significance Rapp Doris Gaines
A Man of Significance Rapp Doris Gaines
It's 1619, and fourteen-year-old John Gowen's world was just destroyed. John, and 350 other Angolans, were captured as spoils of war by Portugal, loaded onto two slave ships, and sailed for the Americas. All he has known of his former home in Africa is lost.
Yet, despite his tragic beginnings, he grew up to be a man of significance.When I researched my distant ancestors and my DNA results came in, I discovered ninety 5th great-grandparents. Deep in the belly of The White Lion, he sits among the dead and dying as he makes the months-long voyage. On my direct paternal line was Thomas Christopher "Sobering Wind" Gowen (black, white, and part Cherokee).
I was shocked and amazed. How could that be? I had reddish/blond hair, freckles, and blue eyes.Researching Thomas, I discovered my 7th great-grandfather, John Gowen.
He was among the first twenty to thirty Africans to come
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