Black Africans
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Black
Africans were slaves brought from their African homelands by force to work in the
New World. Their rights were severely limited, and they were long denied a
rightful share in the economic, social, and political progress of the United
States. Nevertheless, African Americans have made basic and lasting
contributions to American history and culture.
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The uninterrupted history of blacks in the United
States began in 1619, when 20 Africans were landed in the English colony of Virginia.
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Black people were easily distinguished by their skin
colour
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Moreover, the development of the belief that they were
an “inferior” race with a “heathen” culture made it easier for whites to
rationalize black slavery. Enslaved blacks were put to work clearing and cultivating the farmlands of the New World.
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Of an estimated 10 million Africans brought to the
Americas by the slave trade, about 430,000 came to the territory of what is now the
United States
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