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African Diaspora

The African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities from Africa The Africans diasporas started of Indian ocean Slave trade goes back to 25000 BE. The system were run by arabs about 700 years ago, but theme of slave trade has changed over time were african were sent as a slaves to the Middle East to Indian Ocean included Madagascar. The ancient slave trade where Egyptain, greeks and various indian group and parsian were all trading slave on a small sclae across the indian ocean. Slavery was also a long-established in the Arab and Islamic cultures as well as many African societies. War captives were one of the reason of slavey were people were bonded labor and people who were unable to pay their taxes, or could not afford food during times of famine sold themselves into a system of bonded labor. This system of slavery was based on religion as only pagans could be enslaved, this means no Muslims, Christians or Jews could be enslaved. In the late 15th Europeans bought African slaves from West African and brought them to the Americas and to Europe. The first African diaspora by the Europeans in 1400 by Portuguese. They were the first to completed the first transatlantic slave to Brazil and other Europeans soon followed the Portuguese lead. slaves was used as a cargo to be transported to the Americas as there to be sold to work on coffee, tobacco, cocoa, sugar, and cotton plantation, gold and silver mines, rice fields, the construction industry, cutting timber for ships, as skilled labour, and as domestic servants “According to, where is the African Diaspora” Brazil has the most African descent 55.9 million people, which makes it the country the first  with the largest African Diaspora population which makes the US the second country with an estime 46.4 Million of African descent. Follow by Haiti the which is French colonize Haitians are many descendant of enclaved people from Africa, who was brought by force by the French, the Majority of these people where from West Africa and Central Africa mainly from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, Sierra Leone, Benin and Senegal among others. Haiti became the third country in the world with 10.1 million Africa descendants. The Portuguese colonizer managed to trade over five million enslaved people from West Africa Mozambique, Congo, Angola, Nigeria, Benin, and Ghana. About 50% of those captured were brought to Brazil and forced to work on the mines and sugar. etc.. According tothe article The Growing Diversity of Black America. “The U.S. Black population is also growing. In 2019, 46.8 million people in the U.S. identified their race as Black, either alone or as part of a multiracial or ethnic background. That is up from 36.2 million in 2000.1 The Black share of the U.S. population is higher today than in 2000 as well. About 14% of the national population said they were Black in 2019, up from 13% who did so in 2000.”

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/where-is-the-african-diaspora.html

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/03/25/the-growing-diversity-of-black-america/

https://www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk/oms/slavery-and-the-african-diaspora-journeys-from-the-caribbean-to-britain

https://libguides.northwestern.edu/AfricanDiaspora

https://www.history.com/.amp/news/african-diaspora-trans-atlantic-slave-trade

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5318189/#S2title

https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/september-1998/defining-and-studying-the-modern-african-diaspora

https://www.pvamu.edu/tiphc/research-projects/the-diaspora-coming-to-texas/the-transatlantic-slave-trade-and-origins-of-the-african-diaspora-in-texas/

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-role-the-diaspora-shaping-us-policies-toward-africa?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwbeBx83q9wIVRm1vBB3pmQaXEAAYAiAAEgJqpvD_Bw