Guinean American
| Total population | |
|---|---|
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3,016 (ancestry or ethnic origin, 2000 US Census) |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
| Mainly Washington, DC, New York City and Rhode Island | |
| Languages | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| African American, American groups of West Africa (Ivorian, Malian, Senegalese, etc.), French |
3,016 (ancestry or ethnic origin, 2000 US Census)
Guinean Americans are Americans of Guinean descent. According to estimates by 2000 US Census, there were 3,016 people who identified Guinean as one of their two top ancestry identities. However, in November 2010 the New York Times estimated that as many 10,000 Guineans and Guinean Americans reside in New York City alone.
The first Guineans who emigrated to United States were bought as slaves in colonial times. Many of them came from peoples such as the Fulbe,Baga and the Susu and hailed from places such as Fouta Djallon. So, many slaves of day-present Guinea were Muslims (case of the Fulbes and the Susu people). Many Guineans were bought in places as the Boké village and the Pongo River, since where were exported to places such as New York,The Carolinas or Louisiana. So, since Boké were sent many slaves to the plantations of The Carolinas to work in the rice fields of this territory. The Pongo River highlighted as slavery area in the 1800s after the trade was legally abolished.
In addition, since 1712, arrived a boat with slaves from the Guinean Coast to French Louisiana every year, when the Frenchman Antoine Crozat, who was the first owner of the private property of French Louisiana, obtained the monopoly of trade in Louisiana by the French government and was allowed him to use slave labor with the permission of the Company of Guinea. So, in the early stages of the slave trade to Louisiana, most of slaves were almost entirely from Senegal and Guinea, probably because those slaves could favor the rice plantations of this state already that they were familiar with rice plantations which was commonly grown in Senegambia and Guinea.
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