John Conny was a Guinean chief who would treat the European sailors like any ship docking at an international port of call today. These ships would have to pay landing fees, taxes, custom duties and were not given any special treatment just because they were white. The white slave owners were so afraid that his story would have gotten popular in the West Indies that they renamed him ‘Jonkonnu’, which became an evil silly dancer that would scare kids at Holiday time. This way, when a Black Child heard about John Conny he would not listen because he would think it is something evil and stupid
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