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minus-square@cendawanitalink1•11 months agoCould be Orang Asli as well? Africans seem like such a ways away but fascinating fact regardless
minus-square@ruk_n_rullink2•edit-211 months agoThis was a recounting from the local Malays, who always knew the orang aslis by other, more specific, names. Even the book clarified them as Blacks. I forgot to date the story but it’s from the 1840s. Anyway, here’s a full excerpt:
minus-square@ruk_n_rullink1•11 months agoCould be? Imagine being the American blacks, with their mixed christian-voodoo-west african beliefs, transplanted for labour to a foreign land with no b*tches. What do? 🤔
as in African-Americans?
I suppose so, yes.
Could be Orang Asli as well? Africans seem like such a ways away but fascinating fact regardless
This was a recounting from the local Malays, who always knew the orang aslis by other, more specific, names. Even the book clarified them as Blacks.
I forgot to date the story but it’s from the 1840s.
Anyway, here’s a full excerpt:
sike, it’s actually orang minyak
Could be? Imagine being the American blacks, with their mixed christian-voodoo-west african beliefs, transplanted for labour to a foreign land with no b*tches. What do? 🤔
My my my what an interesting piece of history indeed!