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Enslaved Africans also used cornrows to transfer and create maps to leave plantations and the home of their captors. This act of using hair as a tool for resistance is said to have been evident across South America. The ingenious method was created by Benkos Bioho, a King captured from Africa by the Portuguese who escaped slavery
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