About 95% to 99% of Brazilians descend from the country's indigenous peoples and Portuguese settlers, while 85% to 95% also have African slave ancestors.

This is explained as an act of rebellion, remembering their slave ancestors, who had to work bare-headed in the sun.

He also abandoned his name that was given to his slave ancestors and adopted Muhammad Ali.

She was remote, a slave ancestor whose history had been lost.

Big Sam, in turn, leads them to Horace, a lifelong slave of Fauntroy's, who alleges Fauntroy V is part black, sharing a common slave ancestor.

So too is the fact that the slave ancestors of modern African-Americans were sold into slavery by fellow Africans, who were in some cases Muslims.

Having heard that her slave ancestors made quilts as part of their work on the plantations, she began to paint on fabric and then to quilt her images.

Generations after slavery has gone, the lowly status of these slave ancestors still matters.

And thinking of his slave ancestors, he adds fatalistically: "What would this country be like, man, if they never had brought none of us over here?

In addition to slave ancestors, a person may also find ancestral links to slave owners, traders and raiders.