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It seems like besides African-Americans who are deeply rooted in American history because of slavery, the main wave of immigration from Africa only really started from 1960s onward.
There does not seem to be, or at least any that are talked about, free African immigration directly from Africa, from the period between the late 19th century to the late 20th century.
I wonder if there are African Americans who had arrived to the United Stats after slavery ended, but before the wave of immigrants after the 1960s when American immigration policy became more open.
New England received immigrants from Cape Verde before and after the end of slavery. The first ones came to work on whaling ships, as the ships would stop at Cape Verde. My landlord said his father's side of the family was Cape Verdean and had been in Massachusetts since the early 1800s. He called his dad "black", but Cape Verdeans seem like they are mixed rather than purely African in ancestry.
Before the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the U.S. set quotas on the numbers of immigrants from other countries who were allowed to come here; for African countries, they were pretty low. Numbers began to increase after the act was passed and the large wave of decolonization that occurred throughout Africa.
Before the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the U.S. set quotas on the numbers of immigrants from other countries who were allowed to come here; for African countries, they were pretty low. Numbers began to increase after the act was passed and the large wave of decolonization that occurred throughout Africa.
Yeah, this is basically what I was going to say. The immigration acts around WWI were set up so that immigration quotas were set based on the ethnic makeup of the U.S. before the Civil War. Asians and Africans were largely excluded, and Eastern and Southern Europeans were sharply cut. That being said, there were no limits at all for the Western Hemisphere, meaning anyone from the West Indies of African heritage was free to come if they could.
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