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Feb 5, 2024 · Hidden Gems in Black History: Black people existed in America BEFORE Slavery. Before Christopher Columbus, Africans arrived in the Americas. A full two centuries prior to Christopher Columbus “discovering” the Americas, evidence suggests that West Africans had already traveled over the Atlantic to reach the New World.
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America, by Ivan Van Sertima. Random House, New York, 1977, 289 pages, $15.00. Reviewed by Phillip S. Duke, Ph.D. This astounding, revolutionary book concerns "all the facts that are now known about the links between Africa and America in Pre-Columbian times." Very impressive and well ...
Dec 5, 2018 · According to a number of sources, Abubakari II, Mansa (King) of the Mali Empire in the 14th century, led Malian sailors to the Americas, specifically present-day Brazil, almost 200 years before...
May 7, 2021, Audio: "The Atlantic’s “Inheritance” project continues to explore Black history in America with Chapter Two: Uncovering Black History in the Places and Spaces “Where Memories Live.” The newest piece in the second chapter is from Pulitzer Prize winner Annette Gordon-Reed, taken from her book “
- The Destinations
- Population Growth
- Racial Categories
- Migration Within The Americas
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
Africans were not brought in equal numbers to all regions of the Americas but tended to be concentrated in zones that had few American Indian laborers and had rich virgin lands that could be used to grow commercial export products for European consumption. In light of the fact that all the Africans were involuntary migrants and were purchased for w...
As a result of the fact that the slave trade carried primarily adults and males to the Americas, most resident African populations in the New World experienced negative growth rates. As the slave trade declined or was abolished, most of those slave populations finally began to achieve positive growth rates. With fewer adults and males arriving, the...
Until the end of slavery or the establishment of republican governments in most regions of the Americas careful records were kept on people of African origin and descent. However, that systematic examination of race changed, with most census takers no longer listing color or race in their enumerations of populations. It thus becomes extremely diffi...
Although the traditional plantation areas were zones with high densities of African populations, the abolition of slavery in most regions led to an out-migration of ex-slaves as early as the beginning of the nineteenth century. As long as there were economic opportunities in the labor market or farming land was available, ex-slaves refused to work ...
One can conclude that since abolition, the population of African descent in the New World has become both less concentrated and less rural than it was in the nineteenth century. It can be stated in very broad terms that the majority of the population of the Americas, according to very broad definitions of color, is primarily nonwhite and that a hig...
Archbold, Julio E. Gallardo. 2000. "Colombian Legislation: Regulations Governing Afro-Colombian Communities." In Race and Poverty: Interagency Consultation on Afro-Latin Americans. Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Dialogue, Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank. Davis, Darién J., ed. 1995. Slavery and Beyond: The African Impact on Latin Ameri...
This is a timeline of African-American history, the part of history that deals with African Americans . Europeans arrived in what would become the present day United States of America on August 9, 1526. With them, they brought families from Africa that they had captured and enslaved with intentions of establishing themselves and future ...
Nov 15, 2019 · The truth of the matter is that Blacks were explorers on the North American shores long before Columbus. Blacks traveled alongside many explorers with whom many readers are familiar, as sailors and officers.
