African American History - E-book - ePub

The African-American history is fragment of America's historywhich precisely converses the Black American traditional groupsstaying in United States of America. Maximum of thispopulation are original people of Africa who were deliberatelybrought and kept in confinement in the United States ofAmerica from 1555 to 1865. Many blacks whose ancestors hademigrated from the Caribbean to America are also consideredto be African-American as their roots go back to Central orWest Africa.
They have been referred by many names in the Americanhistory like 'Negro' and 'coloured', these terms are no moreacceptable, African-American is an acceptable term and has adifferent implication completely. Precisely what fragment of the African-American population is ofexclusively African descent is unknown. In the past hundreds ofyears there has been a substantial mix of people from Africawith Europeans and American-Indians.
Factually, the principalapproach to racial group association in the United States ofAmerica has been that people having any Black-African rootsare considered to be African-American. The book discusses how they made their way to America andsettled down here forcibly and adapted to the newenvironment. Their struggle to get their basic rights and howthey finally came up emergent and now freely roam the soilsof America with heads held high.