please dont just say africa, because there are a BUNCH of different black races, more than white latin and asian mixed actually (Dna tests)
2006-12-15 13:10:09 · 9 answers · asked by Eduardo h 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I meant where were they brought from as slaves, I think the east and west coasts mainly?
2006-12-15 13:16:35 · update #1
Well mostly from Western Africa, part of the greater Bantu speaking proto-empire of the 1500's and 1600's.
Without DNA sampling we know that the Bantu-speaking peoples of Western Africa had spread and were and are predominant in sub-saharan Africa to this day. In the time of active European/Arabian slave-trade, the Bantu proto-empire (which itself practiced slavery through conquest), would send the defeated to the coasts in waves when Europeans came looking for slaves.
So while a good percentage of Bantu are in the original mix a disproprortionally large percentage were captured from what would have been the "inaccessable" interior of Africa , perhaps whole tribes of peoples, were dislocated and/or wiped out.
So without individual family history/geneology and genetic tests not to mention some transcript from the slavers (unlikely but possible) it would be not specifically possible to say where exactly an individual could be from based on DNA.
2006-12-15 14:03:02 · answer #1 · answered by Mark T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
West Coast of Africa
2006-12-15 21:18:46 · answer #2 · answered by Lolitta 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Their dominant ancestry is from sub-Saharan West Africa. Many African Americans also claim European, Native American, or Asian ancestors. There are also a number from the Caribbean.
2006-12-15 21:20:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Benin, Ghana, Senegal, Togo, and Ivory Coast.
2006-12-16 05:06:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
dude all slave were african-american key word being africa.. end of the subject they ALL come from africa no where else and if you think they did come from other places your a moron. DNA TEST MEAN **** WHEN IT COMES TO FINDING OUT WHERE THEY CAME FROM.
2006-12-15 21:21:53 · answer #5 · answered by unit_804 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My black ancestors were brought here on the ships. It's not like the black people in the UK that mostly migrated from the carribean.
2006-12-15 21:16:02 · answer #6 · answered by 412 KiD 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black Americans are mostly just that....black Americans. Why do they have to be from somewhere else?
2006-12-15 21:14:31 · answer #7 · answered by Agent99 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
america you dumbas s
2006-12-16 01:34:14 · answer #8 · answered by heartofstone 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HOW ABOUT JAMAICA, HAITI...THERE ARE MANY PLACES. MOST OF US ARE FROM HERE THOUGH
2006-12-15 21:14:57 · answer #9 · answered by karamel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋