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Enslaved.org is doing the hard work to make links between possibly connected records through the use of the controlled vocabularies, “match,” which indicates the same entity across multiple records, and “close match,” which indicates a possible connection between two or more entities. These connections can be found within the Related Records section of the person record.
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Bango
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Banhun
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Banol
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Banu
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Banul
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Baoyote
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Binda
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Biojo
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Biojó
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Biri
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Bissao
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Bissau
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Bié
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Bootes
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Camambo
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Camaron
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Camba
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Camingolla
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Canana
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Candembe
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Candombe
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Candombo
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Candonga
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Candongo
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Candubo
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Candumbe
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Candumbo
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Cango
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Canhamba
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Canhemba
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Caninda
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Carabali Apapa
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Carabali Bane
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Carabali Cicuato
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Carabali Mogo
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Carabali Suamo
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Carabali Vende
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Carabali Vivi
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Carabali induri
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Caramgonha
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Carapina
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Cariaes
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Carijó
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Casandra
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Casanga
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Casangue
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Cassambe
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Cassambo
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Cassandra
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Cassanga
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Cassange
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Cassangue
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Cassumbo
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Cay
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Cayuna
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Caçanga
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Caçange
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Chipe
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Chipeta
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Chirichano
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Chocho
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Cicuato
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Clunga
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Clungo
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Coanbo
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Cobia
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Cochinjamba
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Cochipea
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Cocolí
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Cocunge
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Cocurso
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Coembo
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Colembe
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Collue
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Coloé
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Coluale
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Colulonga
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Columba
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Columbe
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Colué
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Comba
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Comboma
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Combá
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Condombe
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Condonbe
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Conga
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Congo
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Congo Ausange
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Congo Baco
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Congo Bamba
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Congo Bomgoma
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Congo Bongo
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Congo Buco
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Congo Buere
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Congo Bullonde
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Congo Camba
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Congo Cango
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Congo Cansa
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Congo Cay
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Congo Chocho
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Congo Damba
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Congo Ganga
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Congo Lano
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Congo Lemba
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Congo Luango
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Congo Lumbi
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Congo Matendi
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Congo Moboma
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Congo Mondongo
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Congo Mongoma
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Congo Moyombe
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Congo Moyoni
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Congo Noca
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Congo Real
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Congo Sasa
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Congo Sombo
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Congo Somo
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Congo Suma
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Congo Tamba
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Congo Tando
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Congola
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Congole
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Congolla
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Congollo
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Congolo
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Congullo
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Congulo
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Corugonha
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Cotipeza
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Cotiva
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Covea
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Covia
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Coxinjamba
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Coxipe
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Coxipea
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Creole
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Criolla
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Criollo
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Crioul
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Crioul-Mulato
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Crioula
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Crioulo
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Crue
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Crue and Tradetown
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Cuanbo
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Cubangola
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Cubangota
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Cuchipea
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Cucoetá
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Cucungo
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Cucusso
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Cucussu
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Cucuçú
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Cugulumbo
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Cuiaia
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Cuilo
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Cumbá
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Cunana
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Cuquipera
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Curuba
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Cussambo
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Cussana
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Cutipeijo
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Cutipeio
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Cutipeyo
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Cutumbira
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Cutumbuca
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Damba
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Dambe
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Danba
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Dandepane
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Dandiparo
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Dengue
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Dhimba
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Dialonké
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Diola
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Djallonka
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Djallonké
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Djola
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Donde
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Dondo
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Dongo
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Dullo
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Dulo
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Dulú
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Dumba
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Dunba
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Dundo
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Duni
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Eboo
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Elugo
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Embaca
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Enchico
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English
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Esan
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Ewe
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Fada
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Falupo
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Floup
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Folupo
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Fon
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Footajalla
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Foulah
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Fula
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Fulani
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Fulbe
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Fulla-Cacheu
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Futa Jallon
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Gabu
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Galanga
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Ganda
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Ganga
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Ganga Songobá
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Gangará
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Ganguela
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Ganguella
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Gangá
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Gangá-ñongobá
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Garag
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Garanga
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Garangue
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Garboo
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Gbe
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Geba
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Geerah
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Gege
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Gegê
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Gelofe
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Gelofo
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Gogongue
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Guaraní
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Gubam
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Guicama
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Guine
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Guinea
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Guiné
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Guissaman
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Gurima
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Hambaca
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Hausa
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Haussá
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Hbah
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Hebo
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Himba
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Hoosa
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Houssa
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Iagon
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Igala
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Igana
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Igara
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Igbo
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Iguatare
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Indian (India)
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Induri
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Inglés
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Ioruba
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Isuamo
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Itepu
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Itica
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Jalonke
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Jalunca
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Jeje
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Jola
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Jolof
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Jolofo
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Joruba
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Kaliána
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Kanga
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Kanouri
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Kanowri
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Kanuri
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Kariana
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Kasanga
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Kasanje
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Kisama
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Kisi
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Kissama
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Kissi
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Kissry
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Kokoli
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Kongo
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Kru
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Kwilu
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Lacoom
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Landoma
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Landuma
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Lano
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Lansunda
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Lemba
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Lisboa
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Loanda
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Loango
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Lovale
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Lualle
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Luallo
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Luanda
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Luango
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Lucume
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Lucumi
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Lucumí
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Lumbi
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Lunda
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Lunga
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Luvale
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Macabi
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Macero
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Machado
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Macua
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Madeira
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Magange
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Mahombe
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Maijombe
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Maina
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Maingombe
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Maiombe
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Maiombo
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Makhuwa
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Makol
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Makua
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Makwa
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Malagas
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Malagasy
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Mamba
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Mambo
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Mandinga
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Mandinga Bambora
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Mandingo
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Mandinka
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Manga
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Manjaco
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Marimba
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Marinba
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Matendi
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Mauinba
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Mauinha
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Mbamba
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Meteque
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Mexivamba
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Miambe
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Micharo
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Mina
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Miombe
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Miombo
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Miteque
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Miumbe
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Mizi
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Moange
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Mobembe
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Mobende
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Moboma
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Mocena
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Mochara
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Mochivonda
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Mogange
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Mogo
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Moiaque
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Moko
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Mokole
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Molunbo
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Molué
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Monange
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Mondongo
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Mongoma
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Monhnaga
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Monjamba
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Monjola
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Monjolla
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Monjollo
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Monjolo
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Monsol
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Moor
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Mosange
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Mosenga
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Mosengo
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Mosongo
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Mossambique
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Mossanga
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Mossangue
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Mossembe
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Mossena
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Mossongo
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Mossunde
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Motembo
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Mouro
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Moxara
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Moxicongo
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Moxipeta
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Moxivamba
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Moyombe
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Moyoni
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Mozabe
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Mozambique
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Mozengo
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Mozi
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Moçambique
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Moçanga
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Muanga
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Muange
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Mubembe
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Mucena
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Muchidongo
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Muchidungo
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Muchipessa
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Muchipeta
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Muiaca
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Muiacka
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Muiaka
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Muianga
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Muiange
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Mujaca
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Mulué
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Musambique
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Musiaca
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Musicongo
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Mussabe
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Mussambique
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Mussange
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Mussena
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Mussonga
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Mussongo
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Muteca
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Muteka
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Mutembo
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Muteque
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Mutexo
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Mutimbo
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Mutuca
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Muxicongo
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Muxidongo
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Muxipeta
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Muxipia
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Muyaca
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Nago
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Nagou
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Nagô
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Naloo
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Nalu
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Nande
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Naque
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Naqui
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Nar
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Nate
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Natiranda
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Natiranga
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Natirangue
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Native American
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Ndolo
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Ndongo
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Neguepio
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Nequipoya
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Ngola
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Niqueponga
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Niquepongo
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Noamba
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Noca
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Noemba
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Nyemba
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Nzabi
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Oamba
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Oambo
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Oanba
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Olimba
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Olukumi
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Onana
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Ortis
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Other Ethnonym
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Oxipea
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Oxipia
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Ozamba
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Ozimba
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Pacheo
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Padaginga
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Palonga
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Panes
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Papel
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Pardo
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Pernambuco
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Piatilo
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Planta
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Poulard
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Pular
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Pulonda
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Quelimane
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Querobina
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Quiaia
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Quilimane
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Quilo
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Quingollo
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Quingolo
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Quinquete
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Quiqueté
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Quirobina
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Quisama
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Quissama
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Quissaman
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Quissamã
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Quiteque
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Quitica
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Quiçama
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Raboli
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Real
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Rebalo
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Rebeolla
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Rebola
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Rebollo
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Rebolo
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Redondo
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Reino
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Ridoma
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Robah
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Roban
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Sama
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Samba
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Sampi
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Sanba
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Sande
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Sandi
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Sania
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Sao Tome
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Sape
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Sapé
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Sarambaca
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Sarambata
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Sasa
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Sena
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Senna
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Sereer
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Serer
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Sombo
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Somo
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Songo
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Soosoo
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Soso
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Suamo
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Suma
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Sunde
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Surua
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Susu
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Ta
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Tamba
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Tando
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Tapa
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Tarquoh
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Tarquoi
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Tebelfaid
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Tecelam
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Tecelao
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Teke
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Tembo
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Tenda
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Tepea
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Terranova
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Thiaca
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Tiaca
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Tierra Nueba
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Tierra Nueva
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Tingoro
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Tingó
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Tipea
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Tuengue
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Tunga
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Tungú
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Tyo
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Uamba
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Uanba
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Ubaranda
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Ubarando
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Ubarunda
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Ubarundo
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Ubomundo
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Ucandi
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Ucandé
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Ucarista
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Ucariste
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Ucatara
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Uchipea
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Uchipeia
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Uculema
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Uculena
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Uculina
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Ucuta
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Udurimba
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Uganangue
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Ugaranga
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Ugarange
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Ugarangue
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Uiba
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Uitica
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Uiva
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Ujamba
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Ujambo
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Ujango
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Ulimba
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Umama
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Umanga
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Umbombe
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Umbongo
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Unana
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Unane
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Unanga
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Unano
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Unbamba
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Unbungo
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Unduira
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Ungongo
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Ungua
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Uronga
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Urongue
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Urtiz
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Usçá
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Utibanda
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Utica
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Utiranda
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Uxipea
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Uzamba
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Uzimba
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Uçulina
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Vaga
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Valanta
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Vende
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Vivi
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Wolof
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Woyo
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Ximba
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Ximbo
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Xipe
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Xipeio
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Xipeta
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Xipita
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Yaka
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Yalonga
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Yalunka
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Yombe
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Yoruba
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Yçama
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Zape
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Zimba
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Zomba
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Zombo
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Zonga
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de los Rios de Guiné
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- Role Types
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Advertised Person
Person whose body, service, or labor is offered as available for hire, barter, sale, or transfer.
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Advertiser
Person or company that pays for an advertisement.
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Appraised Person
Enslaved person or otherwise unfree laborer who is assigned a valuation in monetary currency or equivalents at an assessment or appraisal.
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Baptized Person or Initiate
Person who is initiated into a faith community.
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Buyer
A person or organization authorized to buy an enslaved person or commodities, goods, and services.
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Captured Person
Person who is taken captive, placed in bondage, and/or transported as an enslaved person.
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Child
The biological or adopted offspring of a parent.
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Deceased Person
Person who ceases to live or is buried.
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Emancipated Person
Person who is freed through an immediate or conditional manumission.
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Employee
A person whose labor or services are engaged by a particular employer or business in exchange for money, kind, or debt relief. Includes those whose labor or services are secured through guardianship.
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Employer
A person or organization who employs, hires, or takes guardianship of a person's labor or services as an apprentice, servant, ward, etc.
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Enslaver or Owner
Person or organization who owns or has dominion over the body, labor, and reproductive rights of another person in a social or legal system of involuntary servitude. Includes prior enslaver and owner.
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Leased Person
A person whose labor and services, or the profits derived thereof, are granted to another person or organization as part of a contract or agreement.
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Manumitter
A person or organization who emancipates someone from enslavement.
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Member
Person who joins or is inducted into a social group or organization.
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Mentioned Person
Person who is noted in an incidental way, for example in correspondence that notes an encounter.
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Missing Person
Person who does not have a runaway status but is missing.
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Mortgaged Person
Person whose body, service, or labor is used as collateral in a loan or exchange.
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Parent
The biological or adopted mother or father of a child.
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Participant
Person or organization involved in an event in an unspecified way or in a non-primary role.
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Party
A person or organization in a lawsuit or other legal proceeding. Includes plaintiff or defendant and their legal representation, as well as petitioner, respondent, witness, etc.
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Rebel
Person who plans or participates in an act of violence or open resistance to an established authority
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Registered Person
Person who is counted or recorded.
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Relocated Person
A person or organization who changes place of residence under voluntary or involuntary circumstances.
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Resident
A person or organization establishing domicile in a particular place.
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Runaway
Person listed in a document as having fled or possibly disappeared.
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Seller
A person or organization authorized to sell an enslaved person or commodities, goods, and services.
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Sold Person
A person bought or sold.
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Soldier or Sailor
Person who joins, is inducted into, or serves in an army, militia, navy, or regiment.
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Spouse
A person who is a partner in a marriage, civil union, or common-law marriage.
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Subject
Person telling the history of their life events.
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Transferred Person
A person who is bartered, gifted, inherited, or exchanged. Use for Sale or Transfer event and for events recorded in Document Types: Deed; Bill of Sale, Invoice, or Receipt; Inventory or Probate Record.
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Vessel Captain
Person in command aboard a sailing vessel.
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Vessel Owner
Person(s) or company who owns an interest in a sailing vessel or voyage.
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- Occupation
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Agriculture, Husbandry, and Forestry
Work involving the cultivation of soils or plants; harvest of crops; care of draft animals, livestock, or poultry; and/or the management of trees or forests. Includes farmer, field hand, gleaner, herder, lumberjack, peasant, etc.
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Arts and Entertainment
Work involving the creation, circulation, or performance of artistic or creative works and activities.
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Banking, Insurance, and Commerce
Work involving the operations of financial and credit institutions such as banks and insurers, and/or medium- to large-scale commercial institutions. Includes broker, wholesaler, and importer-exporter.
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Crafts and Trades
Work involving specialized skills, tools, and knowledge.
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Domestic Service
Work involving the management and care of the home or family of an enslaver, employer, or guardian. Includes butler, coachman, footman, gardener, laundress or starcher, maidservant, messenger, nursemaid, etc. Excludes Midwifery and Wet-nursing.
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Fishing, Gathering, and Hunting
Work involving catching fish or shellfish; collecting wild plants; or pursuing animals for food, recreation, or trade.
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Government
Work involving state employment or office holding. Includes cabinet minister, civil servant, diplomat, legislator, mayor, or statesman. Excludes Policing and Corrections, Military and Militia, and Public Works.
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Hiring
Work involving for-hire labor and service rendered in exchange for cash or credit, managed by an enslaved person, an enslaver, or a guardian. Includes day laborer, jobber, and slave rental (e.g., hireling; escravo de ganho).
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Industry
Work involving economic activity concerned with processing of raw materials and/or manufacture of finished goods. Includes mining.
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Landowning
Work involving the ownership, cultivation, and profit of real estate, including income from the rent or other use of land, waterways, and improvements. Includes owners of estates, mills, plantations, and ranches.
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Legal
Work involving courts of law or the judicial system. Includes clerk, commissioner, interpreter, judge, lawyer, etc. Excludes Policing and Corrections.
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Manual Labor
Work involving physical strength and stamina, often involving the movement of heavy loads. Includes laborer, ditch-digger, water-carrier, etc.
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Maritime
Work involving the operations and supply of seafaring vessels. Includes cabin boy, caulker, captain, chandler, crew, coxswain, sailmaker, shipwright, steward, or whaler. Excludes Slave Trade.
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Marketing, Retail, and Trading
Work involving the small-scale sale or exchange of goods and services. Includes but not limited to shopkeeping, street vending, and lodging. Distinct from Banking, Insurance, and Commerce. Excludes Slave Trade.
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Medical and Funerary
Work involving the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, or bodily injury; the preparation of medications or cures; or the handling of dead bodies.
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Military and Militia
Work involving defense, garrisoning, and acts of war.
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Other Occupation
Work that does not fall into any of the other occupational categories.
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Policing and Corrections
Work involving law enforcement and civil order, property protection, bounty hunting, and the pursuit, confinement, and punishment of fugitives, law-breakers, and rebels. Includes jailer, executioner, sheriff, slave-catcher, and warden.
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Religious
Work involving beliefs, operations, or worship in a denomination, faith, or spiritual community. Includes cleric, initiate, shaman, and a lay or regular member of a religious order.
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Slave Trade
Work involving the apprehension and detention, exchange or sale, or transport of enslaved people.
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Teaching
Work involving the transfer of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits in a formal or informal setting. Includes instructor or professor.
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Transportation
Work involving the movement of people and goods via land, rail, or water. Includes barge or boat pilot, litter-carrier, muleteer, railyard worker, oarsman, shipper, and wagoner. Excludes Slave Trade.
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Writing and Publishing
Work involving the creation, editing, and publication of an original spoken or written work.
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Enslaved Person
Person whose body, labor, and reproductive rights are owned by or fall under the dominion of another person or organization in a social or legal system of involuntary servitude.
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Enslaver or Owner
Person or organization who owns or has dominion over the body, labor, and reproductive rights of another person in a social or legal system of involuntary servitude. Includes prior enslaver and owner.
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Free Person
Person who is not enslaved (but may have been born to enslaved parents or freed by rights of free soil, abolition laws, or some other manner).
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Freed Person
Person who was at one point enslaved and subsequently manumitted by self-purchase or by acts of the former enslaver, a judge, or the state.
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Indentured Person or Pawn
Person who is a servant or ward whose labor and service are bound to a person or organization for a fixed term, sometimes under a contract, including as collateral against a debt.
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Liberated African
Person enslaved in Africa, intercepted during an act of clandestine slave trafficking and liberated by a civil authority, judge, mixed commission, or vice admiralty court. Includes emancipado, Free African, Freed African, or recaptive.
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Liminal Status Person
Person in an indeterminate, intermediate, or transitional status between servitude and freedom or who has escaped bondage but neither lives nor is legally recognized as free or freed.
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Advertisement
Event announcing the availability of services for sale or hire; or promoting an event in a written or printed public notice especially a newspaper or poster.
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Appraisal
Event in which a price is assigned to an enslaved person or other property or goods to represent their market or monetary value. Excludes inventories, which are categorized as Registrations.
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Baptism or Naming Ceremony
Event in which a religious rite of initiation into a faith community or denomination is performed.
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Birth
Event in which a child is born.
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Death
Event in which a person dies from any cause.
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Disappearance
Event in which an enslaved person runs away, is kidnapped, or otherwise goes missing, including temporarily. Includes self-emancipation.
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Disembarkation
Event in which one or more enslaved persons are removed from a vessel.
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Emancipation or Manumission
Event in which an enslaved person is recognized to be legally freed, in summary or conditional terms.
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Embarkation
Event in which one or more enslaved persons are taken aboard a vessel for transport.
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Employment, Apprenticeship, or Indenture
Event in which a person's labor and services are contracted or hired out, under voluntary or compulsory conditions.
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Enslavement
Event in which a person is involuntarily bound to servitude by another person or an organization.
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Legal Proceeding
Event involving civil or criminal actions to apply, enforce, or interpret laws, including freedom suits.
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Marriage
Event in which two persons are joined in a domestic, common law, legal, ritual, conjugal, or religious union.
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Mention
Event in which a person is referenced in an incidental way, for example e.g. correspondence that notes an encounter.
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Military Service
Event involving the participation (voluntary or involuntary) of a person in an army, militia, navy, or regiment.
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Mortgage
Event in which enslaved persons or other assets are used as collateral in a loan or exchange.
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Narrative
Event in which a person or organization records or publishes an account of connected life events.
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Registration
Event in which one or more persons are officially recorded or cataloged. Includes census enumeration and inventories.
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Relocation
Event involving a change of residence for a person or family.
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Residence
Event in which a person or family takes up living in a particular site or place.
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Resistance and Rebellion
Event involving the planning or execution of acts of opposition to or subversion of the authority of an enslaver or to established authority. Excludes Disappearance.
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Sale or Transfer
Event in which one or more enslaved persons are proffered for purchase or exchange, or are bought, bartered, gifted, inherited, or exchanged. Includes auctioning and self-purchase.
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Trade
Event involving the purchase, sale, or exchange of any commodities, goods, or services other than enslaved persons.
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Voyage
Event involving the long distance transport of enslaved person(s) for sale or exchange.
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Cemetery or Burial Ground
A site for interment or commemoration of the deceased.
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City, Town, or Village
A human settlement or grouping of buildings in close proximity.
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Continent
Any of the world's main continuous expanses of land (e.g., Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America).
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Corrections Facility
A site for the detention, discipline, or corporal punishment of convicts, inmates, prisoners-of-war, enslaved persons, or the indigent. Includes dungeon, jail, poorhouse, prison, stocks, whipping post, or workhouse.
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Country
An autonomous political division with distinct characteristics.
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County or Parish
A defined jurisdiction whether political, ecclesiastical, etc. within a larger, city, state, or province. A defined political or ecclesiastical jurisdiction within a larger state or province.
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Court
A judicial institution with the authority to adjudicate criminal, civil, or religious matters within a given jurisdiction.
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Domicile
A primary place of residence. Excludes Slave Quarters.
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Hospital
An institution where the sick or injured are given medical or surgical care.
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Maroon Community
A place of refuge for people escaping slavery.
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Other Place Type
A place that does not fall into any of the other place type categories.
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Plantation, Estate, or Ranch
A landed property of medium- to large-scale agro-pastoral production run by a variety of labor regimes including chattel slavery.
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Port
A defined place on a coast, shore, harbor, or riverbank where ships dock.
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Province
A territorial entity within a colony, country, or state that has a political jurisdiction.
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Region
A geographical area defined by specific qualities.
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Religious Site
A building or site used for spiritual ritual and worship or the housing of clergy and other religious figures. Includes chapel, church, convent, seminary, etc.
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- Source
- Source Type
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Auction or Sale Notice
A public document announcing the auction or sale of enslaved person(s), real property, and other assets.
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Bill of Sale, Invoice, or Receipt
A document that records the sale, transfer, or hire of enslaved person(s), labor services, real property, and other assets.
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Census or Register
A document including an enumeration or survey of a population. Includes slave schedule.
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Civil Document
A document related to matters of civil law including non-ecclesistical registries of births, marriage, and deaths; child custody; contested property rights; or interpersonal disputes. Excludes Probate Record and Will and Testament.
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Criminal Document
A document related to matters of criminal law.
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Death or Burial Document
A document recording a human death or interment.
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Deed
A document that records the terms of a transfer of ownership of property, typically land and improvements, from one party to another, including enslaved people.
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Diary, Daybook, or Journal
A document, usually bound, containing a daily or periodic personal record of the author's experiences and observations.
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Digital Data Repository
An archival collection of digitized and/or digitial-native materials that document a wide range of facets of enslavement and slave societies.
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Freedom Suit
A document or documents related to a legal proceeding, most often initiated by an enslaved person, to establish the right to outright freedom or the terms of manumission.
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Freedom or Emancipation Certificate
A legal document certifying the free status of a formerly enslaved person or persons.
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Inventory or Probate Record
A listing of property or possessions, usually associated with the settlement of an estate, determining the validity and execution of a will, or the contents and distribution of a decedent's assets and liabilities. Includes post-mortem inventory.
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Legislation or Decree
A code of law regulating the rights, comportment, and governance of a people, place, or activity.
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Letter
A written or printed communication addressed to a person or organization and usually transmitted by mail.
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Life History or Narrative
An oral or written account of a life experience or portion thereof in the first or third person.
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Map
A graphic, typically flat representation of features of the Earth including areas of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.
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Membership List
A document that records the participants in an organization or association. Excludes Military Service Record.
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Military Service Record
A document related to service or payment of militiamen, sailors, soldiers, and others in uniform. Includes court-martial, muster roll, and veteran pensions.
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Newspaper
A printed publication, issued daily, weekly, or at some other regular interval, containing current news, editorials, feature articles, and usually advertising.
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Runaway Advertisement
A public notice seeking the capture and return of a fugitive or missing person, often on promise of compensation.
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Sacramental or Religious Registry
An ecclesiastical document recording a religious ceremony or sacramental rite, such as a baptism or marriage.
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Secondary Source
Written work that analyzes, interprets, and asses an historical event, person, phenomenon, etc., based on primary source materials; includes scholarly books and articles.
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Ship Registry, Log, or Manifest
A document listing the cargo, crew, itinerary, nationality, ownership, and/or passengers of a vessel.
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Tax Record
A document reporting the obligation or collection of a tax, fee, or levy.
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Will and Testament
A document defining the distribution of a person's assets and liabilities after death.
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