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African American Contributions to the Making of America
Although the original entry of African Americans to America was by way of slave ships that cause them to be the only population of people ever stolen from their homeland of Africa and transported throughout the world to advance a system of chattel and slavery, they quickly earned their place in history as one of the largest contributors to the building of what we now know as the United States of America. They are also the largest population to enter the United States that did not require in the indoctrination of Ellis Island as did all other immigrants. Little or no history can be found regarding the history of Ellis Island and the African American during the 16th and 17th century. There contributions of labor and scientific inventions helped to accommodate and cushion the everyday functions of life.

The name change of this population began shortly after the African slaves were freed under the Constitution of the United States by President Abraham Lincoln. This race has been known as the American Negro, the African American and more than often, the Black American. As they are more than often identified by color than nationality, culture, or language. These things have become to be the very identity markers that separate the descendants of Black African slaves from other Americans that have American citizenship but are born from other places such as Jamaica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Caribbean Islands and also Africa itself takes on a different representation and population. For all these places were drop-off locations during the far travels of African slaves as they were transported and sometimes sold there to reproduce and stimulate other economies. The very things that bind a person to their race and culture were lost to the Africans who were re-established in America in those early times.

The race then begin to acclimate themselves to a new world and actually became the first president of the 13 colonies that grew into what is known as the United States of America. Prior to the slaves, The first Black person noted in American History of esteem was the First Black U.S. President,named John Hanson. During his leadership and presidency(1781), under the Articles of Confederation governing the United States, he established entities that still exist in our present form of government such as as the Department of Treasury and the Secretary of War. President Barak Obama is the first Black American President under the Consitution of America. If only for these two accomplishment African Americans should forever be proud.undefined Lynda Gallashaw (talk) 10:26, 23 October 2016 (UTC)