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The stated mission of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America is: ...to win full Reparations for Black African Descendants residing in the United States and its territories for the genocidal war against Africans that created the TransAtlantic Slave "Trade" Chattel Slavery, Jim Crow and Chattel Slavery’s continuing vestiges (the Maafa).
William A. Darity Jr. believes the ADOS' premise is based on a distinctive ethnic identity that exists among the descendants of American slaves. [12] He defended ADOS against nativism claims [13] and believes they are supporting people who have not benefitted in the current American system. [2] Cornel West stated at an ADOS conference in ...
The internal slave trade was officially abolished during French colonisation of French West Africa in 1905, which led a number of slaves to leave their former "masters ". [8] The history of descent-based slavery is linked to the history of internal migration, whether forced or voluntary, and whether or not it led to emancipation.
Sub-Saharan Africans and their descendants, alongside any by racial or mixed race of African heritage are counted. Irregular migrants are counted in this due to the use of the Schengen Information System markers - as overstays are counted as "present" in one given country - and thus the European estimate evens out). This is a precise census number.
African diaspora archaeology developed out of the studies of Africans and their descendants in research confined to specific locations. The term African diaspora was not used in archaeology until the 1990s, prior to its use, localized terminology such as Afro-Caribbean and African-American was used, and in some cases, “African diaspora” was adopted as a term intended to unify research ...
The term Freedmen refers to descendants of people of African American descent who were enslaved by the Five Civilized Tribes. [1] [2] (They often overlap with those who are descended from those enslaved African descendants who voluntarily joined the Seminole nation, including those who fled from the Seminole Nation, when it adopted the practice of slavery, to Mexico, today known as Mascogos.
Creek Freedmen is a term for emancipated Creeks of African descent who were slaves of Muscogee Creek tribal members before 1866. They were emancipated under the tribe's 1866 treaty with the United States following the American Civil War, during which the Creek Nation had allied with the Confederate States of America. Freedmen who wished to stay ...
Afro-Salvadorans (Spanish: Afrosalvadoreños), also known as Black Salvadorans (Spanish: Salvadoreños negros) are Salvadorans of total or predominantly Sub-Saharan African ancestry. They are the descendants of slaves brought to El Salvador via the Trans-atlantic slave trade during the colonial Spanish era. [4]