African-American Immigrants

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The African-American population is significant to the United States, yet

African-Americans are considered to be African immigrants. The term immigrant means

someone or a group of people who come to a country to live there. From the definition, we

know late Africans who came to America should be considered immigrants, but not the

African-Americans who are born on American soil and lived in America from the beginning.

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