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The first African Americans in the English colonies were brought to Jamestown.
African Americans
Most were brought to North America between 1650 and 1800. Most arrived on Spanish ships. During this period of time these Spanish ships delivered about 12 million black people all over the world. Only 645,000 were brought to what is now known as the United States.
No. There were other African Americans in America before him.
The first African slaves were brought to Virginia by the English in the 17th Century, but Spain probably had them in their American colonies earlier than that.
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They were first brought to jamestown in 1619.
West Africans, brought to the USA in the slave-trade
The slaves were first brought to the American colones so that they could work in the fields and industries.
African Americans churches
Yes and no. Obviously, some black people who live in the USA have never been to Africa. But the name evolved over the past 100 years, as a way to refer to (and pay homage to) the sad fact that many black Americans are descendants of slaves, who were brought here against their will in the 1700s and early 1800s. Actually, black people in the US used to be called "negroes" and "colored people." In fact, that is what the newspapers and magazines called them until the mid-1900s, when first the name "Afro-American" and then the name "African-American" came into common use.
To work as slaves