This page is dedicated to Jerry Ward Chairman of HOA and Secretary of Indo African American Heritage Affairs and his family, and many other families of Indo African American Ancestry.
Indo African American People have validated their heritage by means Colonial Slave trade records, Ancestry DNA Testing, as well as Oral family History.
Indo-African or African Indian is usually referred to people of mixed East Indian aka South Asian Indian and African descendants from Pre colonial migrations in Africa and India. Kidnap sold in to slavery or bonded servants in colonial slave trade to the West Indies to South and North Carolinas,Virgina and Georgia. Often called Indian Coolies. They are a mixture of Bantu tribes from Southeastern Africa and India Subcontinent ethnic groups. Many slaves and Indentures of the North and South Carolinas were of Pakistani descent.
East Indians in Colonial Records. There are thousands here's just a few examples
A. In Caroline County, Virginia, William Matthews, an East Indian, produced a warrant in Caroline County court on 13 February 1752 for taking up a runaway servant woman [Orders 1746-54, 296].
B. Three members of the Weaver family, probably brothers, were called “East Indians” in Lancaster County between 1707 and 1711. They were John born about 1684, Richard born about 1675 and William born about 1686,
Lancaster Co., Va. – Richard Weaver, born say 1675, was called an East Indian by the Lancaster County court on 11 April 1711 when it granted him judgment against the estate of Andrew Jackson for 400 pounds of tobacco due by bill [Orders 1702-13, 262].
William Weaver, born about 1686, and Jack Weaver, “East Indy Indians,” sued Thomas Pinkard for their freedom in Lancaster County court on 13 August 1707. The court allowed them five days time to produce evidence relating to their freedom but ordered them not to depart the county to some remote county without giving security to return to their master within the time allowed. Neither party appeared for the trial on 10 March 1707/8 [Orders 1702-13, 183, 176, 185].
In Delaware, the indenture of East Indian servants was more common than of Indian slaves:
C. An unnamed East India servant boy was valued at 2,500 pounds of tobacco in the 3 July 1676 inventory of the Talbot County, MD estate of Captain Edward Roe [Prerogative Inventories 2:177-8].
D. Michael Miller of Kent County, Maryland, purchased an unnamed East Indian from Captain James Mitchel “but for five years” on 28 June 1698 [Proceedings 1676-98, 911].
E. East Indian Thomas Mayhew was free from his indenture in Prince George’s County [Judgment Record 1728-9, 413]. (He was called “An Indian man named Tom” in the inventory of the Prince George’s County estate of Thomas Addison in 1727 [Prerogative Inventories 12:295-313].
Indo African tribal woman Siddi
Seminole Tribal Woman with Beads
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