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  2. African-American history - Wikipedia

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    Some enslaved Black people had been directly shipped from Africa (most of them were from 1518 to the 1850s), but initially, in the very early stages of the European colonization of North America, occasionally they had been shipped via the West Indies in small cargoes after spending time working on the islands. [33]

  3. Black Laws of 1804 and 1807 - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Black Laws of 1804 and 1807. Black Laws of 1804 and 1807 discouraged African American migration to Ohio. Slavery was not permitted in the 1803 Constitution. The 1804 law forbade black residents in Ohio without a certificate they were free. The 1807 law required a $500 bond for good behavior.

  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 immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

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    The number of Black immigrants living in the United States reached 4.6 million in 2019, an increase from approximately 800,000 in 1980, and which accounted for 19% of the growth in the overall U.S. Black population. Close to 31% came to the U.S. between 2010 and 2019.

  6. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories - Wikipedia

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    Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that visits to the Americas, interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or both, were made by people from elsewhere prior to Christopher Columbus 's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492. [ 1 ] Studies between 2004 and 2009 suggest the possibility ...

  7. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States in 1776 during the Revolutionary War. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic launched major colonization ...

  8. History of Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Ohio: A History of the Buckeye State (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), 544pp; Knepper, George W. Ohio and Its People. Kent State University Press, 3rd edition 2003, ISBN 0-87338-791-0; Murdock, Eugene C. and Jeffrey Darbee. Ohio: The Buckeye State, An Illustrated History (2007). popular; Roseboom, Eugene H.; Weisenburger, Francis P. A History of Ohio ...

  9. Black Indians in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Black Indians (American Indian with African ancestry) Total population. True population unknown, 269,421 identified as ethnically mixed with African and Native American on 2010 census [1] Regions with significant populations. United States (especially the Southern United States or in locations populated by Southern descendants), Oklahoma, New ...