African American Erotic

Black or African American populations comprise approximately 13.7% of the United States population — the largest single-ancestry-with-deep-American-history group. Predominantly descended from the historic Atlantic-slave-trade-period populations brought to the British North American colonies and the antebellum US South (~1619-1865). The 1865 Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery; the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in Confederate-controlled territories. Subsequent Reconstruction (1865-1877), Jim Crow (~1877-1965), and Civil Rights Movement (~1955-1968) shaped the post-emancipation African-American demographic experience. The Great Migration (~1916-1970) saw approximately 6M+ African-Americans migrate from the rural South to the urban North and West, fundamentally reshaping American demographics. Substantial Afro-Caribbean (Haitian-American, Jamaican-American, Trinidadian-American) and African (Nigerian-American, Ethiopian-American, Somali-American, Ghanaian-American) post-1965 immigration has added to the broader Black-American category. Genome-wide studies (Bryc et al. 2015) document African-American populations as carrying approximately 73-82% Sub-Saharan African ancestry plus 17-25% European ancestry plus 1-3% Native American ancestry on average with substantial inter-individual variation.