American Schools (was:Hats - lateste

[ymekelly]

Original Yahoo! HPFG Header:
No: HPFGUIDX C5951
From: ymekelly
Subject: Re: American Schools (was:Hats - lateste
Reply To: [Yahoo! #5890] Re: American Schools (was:Hats - lateste
Date: 8/6/00 1:41 pm  (ET)

<But in my theory: all the African traditions of
 wizarding are in Africa. The African wizard folk used their magic to
 avoid being captured by slavers, and -- with the disrespect for Muggles
 that we have seen so much of in British wizard folk -- felt no need to
 travel to the New World to help out their Muggle co-racialists. Thus,
 Afro-Diasporic wizard folk descend from people who were Muggle-born
 mages in the New World. >

I definitely think there would be witches and wizards who for some
unfortunate reason became slaves. It has been said that slave catchers
wanted the best in Africa. Wizards would fit this bill. Not to mention
many slaves upon arrival in the world were said to be witches. Tibia
(please excuse my bad spelling) was one of the people accused of being
a witch during the Salem witch trails. She was a black slave.

There is also Voodoo, Obea, and Sanitaria. All brought over from Africa
with the slaves. Many slaves combined their master religions with their
own beliefs in order to hide their beliefs. Granted they probably would
not have been able to start a school while in slavery. But as witches
and wizards they could have escaped and started their own school.

I do believe that the West Indian Islands would have older African
based schools then would be found in the US. I believe this to be true
simply because many slaves escaped and live in the mountains on these
islands. (The morons, escape slaves, were known to be on every island. The
most successful were in Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba).

All this is just my IMHO. Just a thought.

YMEK