African slaves were the cheapest available labor source to cultivate and produce sugar for the European market.
The person you are referring to is likely Frederick Douglass. When he was a young child, he and his mother were kidnapped, and his mother was sold into slavery. Douglass later escaped from slavery himself and became a prominent abolitionist, orator, and writer, advocating for the rights of African Americans and the end of slavery. His experiences profoundly shaped his views and activism throughout his life.
Shawne Merriman is of African-American descent. He was born to a mother of African-American heritage and a father who is also African-American. Therefore, he is not considered bi-racial; he identifies as Black.
yes she is. because her mother comes from an African American, french, and other ancestors.
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.
She is African-American just exotic looking make up does wonders to the face
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
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.)
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 African Luhya term for the English word 'mother' is Mama.
"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
The child of a slave woman and a free man would typically be considered a slave, inheriting the legal status of the mother. This was a common practice in many societies where slavery existed.