I think it may be lost on many Americans that Afro Americans have a longer history in America than most of the white people there now.
The schooner Clotilda was the last known US slave ship to arrive in the USA, berthing in 1859, despite the slave trade having been banned since 1806, whereas the largest waves of white immigration took place after 1859, or slightly before in the case of the Catholic Irish escaping the Potato Famine.
Between 1750 (total population just over 1 million) and 1800 (total population just over 5 million), the black population was hovering around the 20% mark. From 1800 this decreased to 9.7% in 1930, when it started to increase slightly as European immigration tailed off. They remain the 2nd largest largest ethnic group. There has been a recent rise in the number of foreign-born black people.
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