It is estimated that about fifteen million Africans were captured for the slave trade over the three hundred years of American slavery. Females did not equal males until 1840. So, you see, slavery was very devastating thing. Their culture was virtually wiped out—not totally, but virtually wiped out. Then you have this great importation of people from Africa to America. Of course, a lot of them did not make the middle passage, and that’s a shame. But, anyway, that’s the beginning. And it seems like,