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Also known as Black Americans and American Negroes, the African Americans are citizens and residents of US. They are the largest minority of the US and after the whites, the largest of the racial groups. They have originated from Africa's black population. Most of the African Americans are descendents of Africans who were captives in the slavery era and survived in the boundary of the now United States. Some of them are either immigrants or descendents of immigrants from other countries of Africa, Caribbean
The Africans arrived in America first in 1528. The first African to come to the US in Texas was Esteban de Dorantes who was a Moroccan. There was a trade of the African people with their enslavement with forced labor. Despite a subordinate status, the African Americans developed as a strong community, learning to speak English. Some of them embraced Christianity, merging their faith with the whites.
African American history starts from the servitude of these people in American colonies, progressing to the election of Barrack Obama, an African American as the 44th and the present president. During this long phase of history, the African Americans faced many events and issues, some resolved some ongoing. Some of these issues were slavery, reconstruction and development of the community, military conflicts of U.S and participation in them, Civil Rights Movement and racial segregation.