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The American Revolutionary War, which saw the Thirteen Colonies become independent and transform into the United States, led to great social upheavals for African Americans; Black soldiers fought on both the British and the American sides, and after the conflict ended the Northern United States gradually abolished slavery.
In the English language, the term negro (or sometimes negress for a female) is a term historically used to refer to people of Black African heritage. The term negro means the color black in Spanish and Portuguese (from Latin niger), where English took it from. [1]
The word "race", interpreted to mean an identifiable group of people who share a common descent, was introduced into English in the 16th century from the Old French rasse (1512), from Italian razza: the Oxford English Dictionary cites the earliest example around the mid-16th century and defines its early meaning as a "group of people belonging to the same family and descended from a common ...
African American slaves in Georgia, 1850. African Americans are the result of an amalgamation of many different countries, [33] cultures, tribes and religions during the 16th and 17th centuries, [34] broken down, [35] and rebuilt upon shared experiences [36] and blended into one group on the North American continent during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and are now called African American.
African Americans also have higher prevalence and incidence of Alzheimer's disease compared to the overall average. [200] [201] African-Americans are more likely than White Americans to die due to health-related problems developed by alcoholism. Alcohol abuse is the main contributor to the top 3 causes of death among African Americans. [202]
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 ...
The 1619 Project is not “critical race theory.” Not only is it a reach to equate Nikole Hannah-Jones’ award-winning journalism The post Before 1619: The secret history of the first African ...
Biographical Dictionary of American Architects. Biographical Dictionary of American Labor. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress; Blake's Biographical Dictionary; Bowling, Lawson, Shapers of the Great Debate on the Great Society: A Biographical Dictionary. Calarco, Tom, People of the Underground Railroad: A Biographical Dictionary.