The first African American arrived in the U.S. in 1619 and were sold by a Dutch man-of-war to the settlers of Jamestown. Then later on a lot more arrived to fill the desire of labor. By the end of the 17th century, there were about 1,300,000 Africans that had landed in the New World (aka the U.S.).
- By Connor 2009 /////Special Thanks to http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4992 and my history teacher
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The European explorers traveled to Africa, where they began a trans-Atlantic slave trade that would bring millions of Africans to the America.
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In August 1619 a Dutch privateers anchored on the Virginia coast and landed and sold twenty black slaves. They were the first black slaves who arrived in North America.
We Moorish people were already over here. Black people dont exist.
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Vanessa Williams was the first African American to be crowned Miss America. She won in 1984.
I think that African-Americans were brought over on boats and were captured by the Europeans.
Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American female poet and the second among the African-American published poet. She was born in Senegambia and came to America as a slave at the age of seven.
The Vikings were probably the first people to arrive on the continent. Christopher Columbus was the first European to land in America though he thought it was India. The Pilgrims were the first to settle there. and so was Melissa navarro
West Africans, brought to the USA in the slave-trade
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Vanessa Williams was the first African American to be crowned Miss America. She won in 1984.
I think that African-Americans were brought over on boats and were captured by the Europeans.
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Vanessa Williams was crown Miss America in 1984, and was the first African American to win the crown.
United States of America
The British (English) settlers brought the first African American slaves over. In fact, they where the only people who brought African American slaves over to America.
Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American female poet and the second among the African-American published poet. She was born in Senegambia and came to America as a slave at the age of seven.
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he is the first african american president on america
No. There were other African Americans in America before him.
She was the first African American woman on the board of Girl Scouts of America. She was the first African American woman to become a full professor at New York University. She was also the first African American woman to be on the US Department of Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.