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  2. African-American history - Wikipedia

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    African-American history started with the forced transportation of Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. The European colonization of the Americas , and the resulting Atlantic slave trade , encompassed a large-scale transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.

  3. Four Hundred Souls - Wikipedia

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    From 1841 to 2019, the vast majority of books telling a history of African America were written by individuals, also almost always male. [1] As the 400th anniversary of Black Africans' arrival in British North America approached, Ibram X. Kendi contemplated how to commemorate the "symbolic birthday of Black America" and the whole 400-year period.

  4. Timeline of African-American history - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. African Americans - Wikipedia

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    African American genres are the most important ethnic vernacular tradition in America, as they have developed independent of African traditions from which they arise more so than any other immigrant groups, including Europeans; make up the broadest and longest lasting range of styles in America; and have, historically, been more influential ...

  6. African diaspora - Wikipedia

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    The African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa. [48] The term most commonly refers to the descendants of the native West and Central Africans who were enslaved and shipped to the Americas via the Atlantic slave trade between the 16th and 19th centuries, with their largest populations in the United States, Brazil, Colombia and Haiti.

  7. African historiography - Wikipedia

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    African historiography is a branch of historiography concerning the African continent, its peoples, nations and variety of written and non-written histories.It has differentiated itself from other continental areas of historiography due to its multidisciplinary nature, as Africa's unique and varied methods of recording history have resulted in a lack of an established set of historical works ...

  8. How ancient African societies used social distancing to ... - AOL

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    From archaeology, we know that social distancing formed a critical part of managing pandemics in historical African societies. From archaeology, we know that social distancing formed a critical ...

  9. Atlantic Creole - Wikipedia

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    Black English: Its History and Usage in the United States. Random House. ISBN 0-394-71872-0. Poplack, Shana (2000). The English History of African American English. Blackwell. Poplack, Shana; Tagliamonte, Sali (2001). African American English in the Diaspora. Blackwell. Read, Allen Walker (1939). "The speech of Negroes in colonial America".