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Igbo 12
Igbo 12
spend time (usually in their teens to their adulthood) with another family, when they work for them. After the time spent with the family, the head of the host household, who is usually the older man who brought the apprentice into his household, will establish (Igbo idu) the apprentice by either setting up a business for him or giving money or tools by which to make a living. This practice was e!ploited by "uropeans, who used this practice as a way of trading in enslaved people. #laudah "quiano, although stolen from his home, was an Igbo person who was forced into slavery to an African family. $e said that fell part of the family, unlike later, when he was shipped to %orth America and enslaved in the Thirteen &olonies.'()*