Afro-American peoples of the Americas
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Throughout the Americas | |
 United States
|
42,020,743 |
 Brazil
|
14,517,961 |
 Haiti
|
8,583,759 |
 Colombia
|
4,944,400 |
 Jamaica
|
2,700,000 |
 Peru
|
1,200,000 |
 Cuba
|
1,034,044 |
 Dominican Republic
|
1,029,535 |
 Venezuela
|
953,000 |
 Canada
|
945,665 |
 Puerto Rico
|
879,121 |
 Panama
|
477,494 |
 Trinidad and Tobago
|
452,536 |
| Languages | |
|
English
English Creole American and Caribbean African American Vernacular English, Southern U.S.A., Jamaican, Trinidadian, Tobagonian, Bahamian, Guyanese, Bajan, Grenadian, Belizean, Saint Kitts, Vincentian, Sranan Tongo French French Creole Haitian, Antillean Spanish Spanish Creole Caribbean Spanish Portuguese Portugues Creole Papiamento Dutch Yoruba |
|
| Religion | |
| Christianity, Rastafari, Afro-American religion, Islam, Yoruba, Traditional African religion, Bahá'í, Judaism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| African diaspora | |
The African diaspora in the Americas is used to refer to people born in the Americas with predominantly Sub-Saharan African ancestry. Most are descendants of people enslaved and transferred from Sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas by Europeans, to work in their colonies, mostly in mines and plantations as slaves, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. At present, they constitute about 18% of the population of the Americas, with the largest concentrations by percentage of population in Haiti (92%), Jamaica (91%), Barbados (90%), Turks and Caicos (90%), Dominica (87%), The Bahamas (85%), Dominican Republic (84%),Saint Lucia (83%), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (66%), Bermuda (55%), Cuba (50%), Puerto Rico (46%), Belize (35%), Trinidad and Tobago (34.2%),Brazil (20.5% mixed + 7% Black), Panama (21%), United States (13.6%),Colombia (10.52%),Costa Rica (8%),Uruguay (4%),Canada (2.9%), and Venezuela (2.8%).
After the United States achieved independence, came the independence of Haiti, a country populated almost entirely by Afro-Americans, the second American colony to win its independence. After the process of independence, many countries have encouraged European immigration into America, thus reducing the proportion of black and mulatto population throughout the country: Brazil, United States, Dominican Republic, etc. Miscegenation and more flexible concepts of race, has also reduced the overall population identifying as black in Latin America, whereas the one-drop rule associated with Anglo-Saxon culture has had the opposite effect in the United States.
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