how did african americans first get to america?

Question

i'm not from the US so i don't know anything about American history. in Australia we have aborigines, and we pretty much stole the country off them, and the american equivalent of that would be native americans (indians). but how did the african americans get there? i feel rude for thinking this, but were they first brought over for slavery? that's the most logical reason i can think of.

Answer 1

The European explorers traveled to Africa, where they began a trans-Atlantic slave trade that would bring millions of Africans to the America. Slavery lasted in the U.S. until 1865. However, it was not only white people who owned slaves. Native Americans and freed blacks also owned slaves.
Channa

Answer 2

I'm a lifelong resident of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. My grandparents immigrated to Boston from Ireland in 1900. So I am of Irish Catholic descent.

From my study of American history, in 1630 the city of Boston was founded by the Pilgrims (English puritans, i.e. Calvinists) from the Plymouth colony on Cape Cod. In 1638 the slave ship 'DESIRE' arrived in Boston delivering the first black African slaves to New England.
In 1638 the only three people in residing in New England were the White Man, the Black Man, and the Red Man (American Indian).
The southern colonies in Virginia preceded the New England Bay Colony, but I'm not that familiar with southern history.

So from my understanding, all the Afro-Americans today are descended from slaves forced over to the New World.

Massachusetts outlawed slavery in 1755 and outlawed the fugitive slave act in 1854. So there were a lot of 'free blacks' living and working in New England, mostly as sailors and domestic servants. A lot of runaway slaves from America sifted into Canada.

Answer 3

That's right. Africans were brought to the United States (as well as much of the Caribbean, Central America and South America) as slaves. The slave trade itself lasted from the mid-to-end of the 1700s until 1807, however, slavery in the United States lasted for another 58 years. Today, many Africans immigrate to the United States, many for education.

Answer 4

Yes, and it was the Dutch who started the slave trade--my ancestors. But don't forget that many tribes offered slaves to the traders--they captured slaves in tribal wars.
In Canada much is being done to honor the treaties made with the First Nation as the former Amerindians now call themselves. Now whites are raising the roof, as they have to either vacate land or pay for leasing it. Only First Nation can do commercial fishing in Lake Huron. They also have get a percentage of the take in state-sponsored casinos.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

First they came to Latin-America free with the Arabs.
then,
they came to North America a brought as slaves by British enslavers.

Some Blacks escape slavery and found refuge in Mexico.

Answer 7

Most of the earliest black immigrants to the Americas were natives of Spain and Portugal—men
such as Pedro Alonso Niño, a navigator who accompanied Columbus on his first voyage, and the
black colonists who helped Nicolás de Ovando form the first Spanish settlement on Hispaniola in
1502. The name of Nuflo de Olano appears in the records as that of a black slave present when
Vasco Núñez de Balboa sighted the Pacific Ocean in 1513. Other blacks served with Hernán
Cortés when he conquered Mexico and with Francisco Pizarro when he marched into Peru.

Iberian Blacks Estebanico, one of the survivors of Pánfilo de Narváez’s unfortunate expedition to
Florida in 1527, was a black. With three companions, he spent eight years traveling overland to
Mexico City, learning several Native American languages in the process. Later, while exploring
what is now New Mexico, he lost his life in a dispute with the Zuñi.

Answer 8

Wow, I figured that bit of history was nasty enough to be well known world over... Yes, they were stolen away from their families, put on ships, and those that lived through the trip were forced into slavery in the U.S. by evil people.

Answer 9

In the trunk of my car!


no im jsut kiddin on a slave ship, watch your question alot fo african americans are still touchy about that, Imean it was only 200 years ago...

Answer 10

Yes, they were brought over on ships from Africa and sold into slavery.