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Portuguese-Americans and Contemporary Civic Culture in Massachusetts. Cardozo, Manoel da Silviera Soares (1976). The Portuguese in America, 590 B.C.–1974: A Chronology & Fact Book; Hoffman, Frederic L. (1899). "The Portuguese Population in the United States". Publications of the American Statistical Association. 6 (47): 327–336.
By 1490, more than 3,000 slaves a year were transported to Portugal and Spain from Africa [1] African Americans made up almost one-fifth of the United States population in 1790, but their percentage of the total U.S. population declined in almost every U.S. census until 1930. [5]
Total population; At least 325,000 people (about 2.94% of Portugal's population, possibly much higher) Regions with significant populations; Portugal (Lisbon metropolitan area, Algarve, Porto Metropolitan Area) Languages; Portuguese various African languages and Portuguese creoles: Religion; Predominantly Roman Catholicism, Afro-Portugueses ...
Generally, Cape Verdean Americans speak English, Portuguese, and Kriolu (or Crioulo). [23] The Creole language is a mixture of Portuguese and the native African tongues spoken by slaves. In some Islands (mainly Fogo and Brava) there is a lot English vocabulary adopted.
From 1787 to 1868, enslaved African Americans were counted in the U.S. census under the Three-fifths Compromise.The compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population.
The African diaspora in the Americas refers to the people born in the Americas with partial, predominant, or complete sub-Saharan African ancestry. Many are descendants of persons enslaved in Africa and transferred to the Americas by Europeans, then forced to work mostly in European-owned mines and plantations, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The population of Martinique, an overseas region of France, is 390,371 (1 January 2012 est.); 80% of the population has African and African-white-Indian mixture which emphasizes its diversity. Their West African ancestors were imported from the Bight of Biafra , West Central Africa and the Guinean Coast for sugar cane plantation labor during ...
Argentina equally corresponds to the second largest population and percentage with 39 million people, followed by Colombia with 18m, Venezuela 13.1m, Chile 9.5m, Peru 5.8m, Bolivia 2m, Paraguay 1.3m and Ecuador with 980 thousand. Roughly 14% of the population in French Guiana is of European ancestry, numbering at 35 thousand people.