various things:

1. Sorry for the googbly gook at the end of my last post. It means nothing.

2.I understand that massive numbers of enslaved Africans were not settled in Britain. However there were some Africans there brought as slaves or otherwise. Given that there were Black populations in Britain prior to the mid 20th century Caribbean immigration, I believe that it is appropriate to wonder what happened to those people of Black descent.

For those who may be interested, there is some information on the subject of pre-20th century Black Britons on this Mudcat thread:

Black Britons and Folk Music

3.I understand that some West African ethnic groups such as the Yoruba, Wolof, & Akan trace their ancestry to Nilotic people. The Luos {Kenya, East Africa} also are Nilotic people. It might have been possible that the term "Cush" could have survived in their language. Since most of the Africans who were enslaved in Britain and the "New World" were from West Africa, it might also have been possible that they or their ancestors preserved the word "Cush" as athe referent "Cushie".

Of course, this is all very much speculation.

[I think. Therefore I am]

That word Cushie had to come from somewhere. If it didn't come from the Biblical Cush/Kush, at the very least I shared information for those who may not of known it about Cush, the grandson of the Biblical patriarch Ham and the Kingdom of Cush.

Also, Grab, actually, I never heard the "Cushi Cushi Cow" Mother Goose Rhyme. Maybe "cushi" is nothing more than an onomopoetic [sp?] word.

And maybe not.