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From 1668 to 1829, 145,000 people were shipped from the slave trading port at St. Louis, Senegal. From 1668 to 1843, 126,000 people were shipped from the slave trading port of Bissau on the coast of modern day Guinea Bissau, West Africa. These are the lands were Balanta people were living. From these two slave trading ports, 6,400 people were brought to the Gulf Coast, 10,000 people were brought to the port at Charleston, South Carolina, 4,500 people were brought to Chesapeake, and 1,400 people were brought to New York. From 1761 to 1815, records show that 6,534 Binham Brassa (Balanta people) were trafficked from their homeland and enslaved in the Americas. That’s an average of at lea ...

109 common words in both English and Balanta with full color illustrations and pronunciation. The only English - Balanta basic vocabulary book of its kind.

Bliss Symbols are a set of simple line drawings of natural things which combine to form every idea you can think of. To the untrained eye they may at first look rather abstract but after learning only a hundred or so basic symbols, the whole writing system of more than 5,000 symbols becomes transparent. Can you think of a better way to learn a new language, than singing it? Of course you'll sing in your native tongue since you're learning a writing system, not a spoken language. Learn the songs by listening on YouTube as you try to sing the lyrics from the Bliss Symbols. When you finish singing the book, you should have a pretty good vocabulary.