African-American history

African-American history started with the forced transportation of Black Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. The European colonization of the Americas, and the resulting Atlantic slave trade, encompassed a large-scale transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. Of the roughly 10–12 million Black Africans who were sold in the Atlantic slave trade, either to Europe or the Americas, approximately 388,000 were sent to North America.

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