African-American diaspora

The African-American diaspora refers to communities of people outside of the United States who are descended from people of African descent who were enslaved in the United States or the prior British colonies along the east coast of North America.

West Africa
Main articles: African-American settlement in Africa, Americo-Liberians, and African Americans in Ghana

Several settlements in West Africa were established in the 19th century by African-Americans and descendants of former slaves from the former British colonies of North America, particularly in what are now the republics of Liberia and Sierra Leone. Several of those who were settled in Sierra Leone were former Black Loyalists, and today constitute a portion of the Sierra Leone Creole people.

More recent immigration by African-American expatriates has been directed to Ghana.

Canada
Main articles: Black Canadians and Black Nova Scotians

African-Americans who settled in Canada before Confederation include three major waves:

Other, smaller waves of African-American settlement occurred in Western Canada in the 19th and early 20th centuries, with African-Americans from California taking up an allowance from the Colony of Vancouver Island to settle on the island in the 1860s, as well as settlements by African-Americans from Oklahoma and Texas in Amber Valley, Campsie, Junkins (now Wildwood) and Keystone (now Breton) in Alberta, as well as a former community in the Rural Municipality of Eldon, north of Maidstone, Saskatchewan.

Caribbean
Main articles: Haitian emigration, Samaná Americans, and Merikins

Mexico
Main article: Mascogos

Europe
Main articles: African Americans in France, Black British, and Americans in the United Kingdom

In the 1780s with the end of the American Revolutionary War, hundreds of black loyalists, especially soldiers, from America were resettled in London.[1] Later some emigrated to Sierra Leone with help from Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor after suffering destitution.[2] However, they were never awarded pensions, and many of them became poverty-stricken and were reduced to begging on the streets. Reports at the time stated they: ''had no prospect of subsisting in this country but by depredations on the public, or by common charity.'' A sympathetic observer wrote that ''great numbers of Blacks and People of Colour, many of them refugees from America and others who have by land or sea been in his Majesty's service were.....in great distress.'' Even towards white loyalists there was little good will to new arrivals from America.[3]

The African-American population in Britain did not grow until World War II. By the end of 1943 there were 3,312 African-American GIs based at Maghull and Huyton, near Liverpool.[4]

Israel
Main article: African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem
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References
  1. "A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten".
  2. Tukufu Zuberi, Antonio McDaniel, p 25 -26. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the ..."
  3. Julie Winch, 60-61. "A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten".CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. "Liverpool's Black Population During World War II", BASA Newsletter No. 20, January 1998, p. 10.
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