Wonderful story to hear this about your ancestry. Certainly we need to better understand the mass enslaved by the British that brought more slaves to the Carribean (2 million plus as I understand it) than to the British American colonies (400,000). I recently thought about the language though and wrote a story last week on it; the evidence clearly shows there was no “colonization” of Africa. There was a full scale military invasion and occupation. Colonization reminds people of civilization and a civilizing affect. But that isn’t technically what happened. The British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgium, Germans met in 1884 in Berlin to draw a War Plan, carving up Africa, the spoils of the war to come, then began the invasion and military occupation, creating one of the biggest ethnic cleanings collectively. I would hardly call that civilized, but rather barbaric. See the map of what Africa looked like before that date in my column.