African Americans In The 1700s

Decent Essays
Charles L. Richardson
2/7/2015
American History 114F
African newcomers that came to the United States shortly before the 1700’s and 1800’s were a large forced migration. The United States had stop all imports of enslaved Africans in 1807. But between those times it was easily over six hundred thousand people who was bought to North American from Africa or indirectly through the Caribbean. Two hundred thousand of these slaves were bought between 1776 and 1807. The other four hundred thousand slaves that reach America between 1675 and 1775 that endured the Atlantic crossing were called “Saltwater Negroes”. They were only less than seven percent of other Africans in the world who were part of the African trades. Between 1690 and 1807, English

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