Ghanaian Americans are citizens of the United States who are of Ghanaian heritage or were born in Ghana and immigrated to the United States of America.
The first people to arrive from the region then known as the Gold Coast were brought as slaves. Typically, the product of wars, many slaves were sold people to Europeans, although West African slavery was much different from American chattel slavery. However, because of conditions in the colonies,...
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Ghanaian Americans are citizens of the United States who are of Ghanaian heritage or were born in Ghana and immigrated to the United States of America.
The first people to arrive from the region then known as the Gold Coast were brought as slaves. Typically, the product of wars, many slaves were sold people to Europeans, although West African slavery was much different from American chattel slavery. However, because of conditions in the colonies, most African Americans are mixed with various ethnicities. Also, because the slaves came from a number of locations on the African continent, the likelihood of an African American pinpointing his genetic ancestry specifically to Ghana alone is low.
Ghanaians began arriving in the United States en masse during the 1950s and 1960s amid the Civil Rights and anti-Imperialism era. Ghanaians such as Kwame Nkrumah were taught at American universities and worked with black American leaders for the rights of Black People worldwide. Notable African...
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