Original African Americans

ORIGINAL AFRICAN AMERICANS  ( OAA ),  also known as African Americans, Black Americans, and American Freedmen, refers to the descendants of former continental Africans who established the first Black African communities, society, culture, and development of the conterminous United States of America, after being forcibly brought from Africa and enslaved in our country as early as the year 1526, through the final year of our emancipation from slavery in 1865. Our ethnic group's history is unique and distinct  from more recent Black immigrants to the United States of America from Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, or from any country outside of the U.S. after   our emancipation by the Thirteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in 1865. CULTURE: Our   Original African American   culture  is over 500 years old ,  and encompasses a variety of languages, food, music, dance, agriculture, fashion, religion, hair styles, entertainment, sports...