African slaves were the cheapest available labor source to cultivate and produce sugar for the European market.
She is African-American just exotic looking make up does wonders to the face
yes she is. because her mother comes from an African American, french, and other ancestors.
Barack Obama's ancestry is multiracial and multicultural. His father was from Kenya and was black; his mother was from Kansas and was white. His father's ancestry was African; his mother's was Irish and English. The president is thus African-American.
because she helped loads of people
There isn't one universal African language, so there isn't a single way to spell "mother" in an African language. It would depend on which specific African language you are referring to.
Booker T. Washington was a slave because he lived in the time frame in which African-Americans weren't treated as equals to the whites. He was born into slavery by his mother, Jane. His mother was an enslaved black woman who worked on the Bourrough's Plantation in southwest Virginia. Booker's siblings and mother was freeded of slavery after the Civil was, formally by the 13th Amendment.
People are considered to be Jews if they convert to Judaism, or because their mother is Jewish. (In the Reform movement a person is considered Jewish if they have a Jewish father and are raised Jewish but don't have a Jewish mother.)
The African Luhya term for the English word "mother" is "mama".
Because his father was from Africa (Kenya). Actually, it is more correct to say he is biracial, since his mother was white and his biological father was black. The problem is with America's racial history: because of slavery, a person who had even partial black ancestry was considered black, and even after slavery was outlawed, such a person could be subjected to segregation (in some states, interracial marriages were illegal). Today, "biracial" is a recognized category, but when Barack Obama was little, because his skin was darker than that of a white person, he was considered black.
The Olmecs are considered the mother culture of Latin America because they were one of the earliest complex societies in the region and had a major influence on later Mesoamerican civilizations. They developed many important cultural practices, such as the Mesoamerican ballgame and the use of ritual monuments. Additionally, their legacy is evident in the art, religion, and architecture of subsequent cultures like the Maya and Aztecs.
"crispus attucks was born into slavery in framingham, Massachusetts, around 1723. it is believed that attucks was the son of an African-American father and a native American mother. as a young man, attucks escaped slavery by running away to sea." -McDougal Littell
yes she is she has both a African American mother and father even tho her mother has not told her who her father is she does knw his is African American