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Afro-American peoples of the Americas is used to refer to people born in the Americas who have African ancestors. Most are descendants of people enslaved and transferred from Sub-Saharan Africa (the vast majority of the Gulf of Guinea) to the Americas by Europeans to work in their colonies mostly in mines and plantations as slaves between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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