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Bolongo is a settlement on the island of Saint Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands.
Map of Bolongo, St Thomas 00802, USVI
Bolongo is also a dialect of the Mongo, a Bantu language from Africa. Bantu-speaking people were taken to the new world during the slave trade, and is a large part of Afro-Brazilian History. With language groups often used as a source of identity, it is possible that this settlement may have found its name from Bolongo-speaking Bantu slaves that may have been brought to Saint Thomas during the new world slave trade, although this possibility has not yet been thoroughly researched.
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Bolongo, U.S. Virgin Islands Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA