Afro-Haitians
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Afro-Haitians or Black Haitians are Haitians who have ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. They form the largest racial group in Haiti and together make up the largest subgroup of A
Afro-Haitian woman at Kanaval.
Eglise de Saint Louis in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Kanaval in Jacmel, Haiti, February 2014
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African diaspora
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The African diaspora is the global collection of communities that descend from the various Black peoples of sub-Saharan Africa.
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18th-century painting showing an sub-Saharan African family
20th-century American philosopher and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois wrote extensively on the black experience in his homeland and abroad; he spent the last two years of his life in the newly independent Ghana and got citizenship there.
Haiti has the largest Afro-Caribbean population (almost 11 million) and also has the highest percentage of its population descended from the African diaspora (95%).
The racial make-up of the Dominican Republic includes many Afro-Caribbeans, mestizos, Taíno-descended persons, and whites.