What can you say about the African Americans?

Question

Are they also have right to say they are Americans? And how if they could trace the history on how they came to that land through slavery?

Answer 1

What can you say about the African Americans?

Volumes. Google the term, if you are interested.

[Do] they also have right to say they are Americans?

Certainly. Anyone born here can say that. Naturalized citizens, too.

And how [can they] trace the history on how they came to that land through slavery?

They generally dead-end with people living in 1870, the first year the US Census counted most Blacks. Sometimes they can get back further with bills of sale for slaves, or slaves given, as property, in wills. Some slave owners recorded some slave births, deaths and marriages in the family Bible.

But, in general, African-American genealogy is a lot tougher than normal, and you get more dead ends sooner.

Answer 2

They  are a beautiful people. It would be a challenge, but not an impossible one to trace heritage. If one is a decendent from a slave records and certificates exist.

Answer 3

Anyone born in the United States is an American, including the American-born children of illegal immigrants.  

Some African-Americans have been able to trace their ancestry back to Africa.  Alex Haley's account of how he came to write Roots is the best-known example.  Other African-American families have preserved memories of their place of African origin and the circumstances of their coming to America in oral tradition.  Lucille Clifton draws on that tradition within her family in some of her writings.  DNA testing has also been very useful in identifying the ancestral places of origin of many Americans of various ethnicities, although it can't preserve the memories of individual experiences!

Other answerers, I think the question is just an honest request for information.   The asker seems not to be a native speaker of English.

Answer 4

you are a pig. it's people like you who start wars and perpetrate hate crimes. just because of the truly horrible way their ancestors came here doesn't make them less American. lots of white people came to America as indentured servants, practically the same as a slave.

Answer 5

Being a descendant of Mayflower passengers as well as Colonies such as Germanna in Virginia and Germantown in Pennsylvania and part Native American, I often refer to any one whose ancestors came here after that as being foreigners.

But, that has nothing to do with skin color or place of origin.

Whether their ancestors came from Africa, Asia, Europe or the Middle East, they all become Americans.

Approximately 12,000,000 Africans came over to the Americas; mostly to South America and the Carribean area.  Many of them died during the passage to the Americas.

In South America and the Carribean area, almost everyone is black, red and white.

In the U.S., the average black has about 20% to 25% white DNA; most whites have RECENT black DNA (within the past 5 centuries).

So, yes, they are definitely Americans.

Answer 6

They are Black. They are, if they were born in the USA, USA Citizens. Black Americans are No Different than White Americans! Whether their ancestry came as Slaves or Not ---they are Equal to any other US Citizen in every way.

Answer 7

Well, if they aren't Americans then neither is anybody else (excepting the very, very small population of full blooded Native Americans.)

And if you're actually being serious, and not completely ignorant and racist, I'll answer the second half of your question. African Americans trace their history the same way everyone else does. With a ton of hard work, years of research, with census records, birth, marriage, and death records, and wills, and sadly with property records - inventories of slave holders property and bills of sale. It helps to trace the slave holding family. The history of the slave family often parallels that of the slave holding family. It would be very unusual to be able to trace back to Africa, but it has been done. Usually the trail would go cold with first slave.

Answer 8

Are you seriously suggesting that African Americans aren't really Americans???

Troll

Answer 9

There seems to be a number of you who are well versed in the study of genealogy. However, let me share with you information you don't seem to know. The African-American person can trace back further then the 1800's! There are records of African's arriving in the new world in the 1400's along with small groups of white persons whom were in servitude as well. If you are interested in reading one of the best documented studies of what I am sharing then get hold of a book calle "Before the Mayflower." This short but powerful read will open your eyes like never before to the journey of the African to this land before slavery!!!

P.S.

Did you know that the chief navigations officer for Christopher Columbus was an African man!!!

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/timeline...

Answer 10

Anybody that is a U.S. citizen is an American.  Their nationality is American and nothing else unless they have dual citizenship.

Yes, I believe they have more difficulty than caucasians tracing their ancestry due to slavery which was no fault of theirs.

Answer 11

you do realize that almost most of americans(including you)

have had illegal immagrant ancestors.