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African Americans are an ethnic group in the United States. The first achievements by African Americans in diverse fields have historically marked footholds, often leading to more widespread cultural change. The shorthand phrase for this is "breaking the color barrier". [1] [2]
We at BlackPast.org have assembled the following list which provides the names of the first African Americans in a variety of areas of achievement in government, law, diplomacy, the military, science and medicine, sports, literature, and other fields.
This timeline includes the main facts about the early Black inhabitants of La Española that resided in the colony between the 1490s and the 1610s as they appear mentioned in the documents contained in this platform.
Black History . First Black Person in Canada. The first Black person thought to have set foot on Canadian soil was Mathieu Da Costa, a free man who was hired by Europeans to act as a translator.
24 févr. 2022 · Juan Garrido was the first documented African American. Much of what we know about Garrido comes from his probanza de merito, or “proof of merit,” which states that while he was from West...
14 oct. 2009 · Though it is impossible to give accurate figures, some historians have estimated that 6 to 7 million enslaved people were imported to the New World during the 18th century alone, depriving the...
The exhibit is composed by 25 poster-size panels, each showcasing a particular document from sixteenth-century La Española that mentions one or several aspects of the lives of the Black inhabitants of this first European colony in the Americas.
