Also, where we grew up isn't actually where our families originated from. According to Hochschild "The Traders Are Kidnapping People" signs of trading people throughout the United States cause linguistic changes "The Kikongo language has been traced linguists have found in the Gullah dialect spoken by black Americans in South Carolina and Georgia" meaning Black Americans came from all over the country. They had the opportunity to gain insight into what it meant to consider these owners as their leader and master. The Nas family came from all over the United States and mostly from the southern part of the United States. Nas grew up in New York but his mother was from North Carolina and most of his ancestors have been from the same place for 5 generations. Most of them believe they grew up on the same plantation and were very close. But most of them share the last name Little. I believe this was because the owner had named them all Little. The owners have owned all 5 generations of Nas' family, the owner in fact did and all were kept close and traced back to being related to whites and not just all blacks