Afro Americans in the Americas

The term Afro Americans in the Americas is used to refer to people born in America who have African ancestors. Most are descendants of people kidnapped and transferred from the sub-Saharan Africa (the vast majority of the Gulf of Guinea) to America by the Europeans to work in their colonies, mostly in mines and plantations as slaves, between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. At present, they constitute about 10% of the population of the co... more
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