African Americans
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African Americans or Black Americans, also formerly called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group. As defined by the United States census, they are Americans who have ancestry from "a
Slaves processing tobacco in 17th-century Virginia, illustration from 1670
The first slave auction at New Amsterdam in 1655; illustration from 1895 by Howard Pyle
Reproduction of a handbill advertising a slave auction in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1769
Crispus Attucks, the first "martyr" of the American Revolution. He was of Native American and African American descent.
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Black is a racial classification of people, a skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion. Often in countries with socially based systems of racial classifi
African Americans
…Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group. As defined by the United States census, they are Americans who have ancestry from "any of the Black racial groups of Africa". African Americans constitute the third-largest racial and ethnic group in the U.S., following White Americans and Hispanic…
Marble portrait of a Nubian man c. 120–100 BC.
Haratin women, a community residing in the Maghreb (Northwest Africa)
An Ibenheren (Bella) woman
Cape Coloured school children of South Africa